Bangladeshi journalist Mohammed Emran Hossan killed in road crash after...
Mohammed Emran Hossan, a correspondent for the news website Newsnow24 and Dainik Amader Shomoy newspaper, was killed in a collision with a vehicle at around 1 a.m. on December 30, in the Rangunia...
View ArticleNepali journalists Aishwarya Kunwar, Puskar Bhatt arrested under cybercrime law
On February 10, police in Kanchanpur district of western Sudurpaschim province arrested Aishwarya Kunwar, a reporter for the privately owned news website Nigarani Khabar, and Puskar Bhatt, a...
View ArticleIraqi Kurdish journalist Omed Baroshky charged with defamation over Facebook...
Three police officers arrested Kurdish journalist Omed Baroshky from his home in the northwestern city of Duhok at around midday on February 22, 2024, on charges of defamation, the journalist and his...
View ArticleCanadian journalist arrested, charged with obstruction while reporting
On January 10, 2024, police in Edmonton, Canada, arrested and charged Indigenous journalist Brandi Morin with obstruction in connection with her reporting on a homeless encampment raided by police,...
View ArticleMalawi police seize equipment from journalists amid ‘fake’ Facebook page...
On February 13, officers from Malawi’s Digital Forensics and Cybercrime Investigations department seized cell phones and laptops from 14 Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) journalists, according to...
View ArticleRare rebuke for Chinese police who harassed state journalists covering gas...
Police blocked and harassed reporters from the state-owned broadcaster CCTV at the site of a fatal gas explosion in Sanhe, a city in China’s northern Hebei province, on March 13, 2024, according to...
View ArticleNigerian soldiers hit and detain journalist Dele Fasan, thugs attack 3...
On February 23, at least seven soldiers arrested and handcuffed journalist Dele Fasan and hit him with a gun as he filmed at the scene of a planned protest in Nigeria’s southern Delta State, according...
View ArticleHaitian journalist, YouTuber kidnapped by gang members, released
Local journalist Sean Roubens was kidnapped on March 14, 2024, by a gang in Haiti’s capital city of Port-au-Prince and held for 17 days before being released unharmed on March 30. Roubens, 42, is a...
View ArticleMyanmar jails filmmaker Shin Daewe for life for buying a drone
Award-winning Myanmar documentary filmmaker Shin Daewe is serving a life sentence on charges of illegal possession of an unregistered drone, a criminal offense under the country’s Anti-Terrorism Law,...
View ArticleLesotho courts dismiss lawsuits seeking closure of 2 newspapers, defamation...
Two privately owned newspapers in Lesotho—the Lesotho Tribune and Lesotho Times—faced separate lawsuits in February and March 2024, seeking to shut them down, according to the publications’ owners who...
View ArticleNicaraguan police arrest journalist Orlando Chávez in León
Nicaraguan police detained Orlando Chávez, the director of the independent news radio show “El Metropolitano,” along with his brother and sister, after raiding their home on May 19, 2024, according to...
View ArticleDRC regulator suspends Bosolo TV program over election commentary
On May 15, 2024, the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s media regulator, the Superior Audiovisual and Communications Council, known by its French acronym CSAC, ordered the privately owned Bosolo TV...
View ArticleSouth Africa police briefly detain journalist Sandiso Phaliso, force him to...
South African police arrested freelance journalist Sandiso Phaliso while he was photographing a crime scene in the country’s legislative capital of Cape Town on April 25 and held him for about two...
View ArticleGhana ruling party supporters assault journalist Dokurugu Abubakar Ndeeya
On May 16, four supporters of Ghana’s ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) assaulted Dokurugu Abubakar Ndeeya, a reporter with the privately owned Zaa Multimedia, while he was filming outside a meeting...
View ArticleU.K.-based journalist Shafiur Rahman decries Bangladesh authorities’...
Police and National Security Intelligence officers detained 32 Rohingyas, a stateless ethnic minority, for around 16 hours in Bangladesh’s southeast Cox’s Bazar region on May 17, 2024, on allegations...
View ArticleJournalist threatened after reporting on drug trafficking in northern Syria
Since June 10, 2024, Syrian journalist Jomaa Akash, a correspondent for the Saudi state-owned broadcasters Al Arabiya and Al Hadath, has received threats of violence on social media, according to...
View ArticleNigeria police arrest, detain, assault journalist Gabriel Idibia while in...
On June 11, police officers in Kaduna, the capital city of Nigeria’s northern Kaduna State, arrested Gabriel Idibia, a correspondent and freelancer with the privately owned Daily Times and Daybreak...
View ArticleGreek journalist beaten on air while reporting from Athens fire
On June 19, 2024, Frixos Drakontidis was reporting live from the scene of a fire in Varis-Koropiou, a southern suburb of the capital Athens, when an unidentified man approached him and asked him to...
View ArticleIndia court delays nearly $90K defamation order against journalist Rahul Pandita
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has stayed an order requiring journalist Rahul Pandita to pay INR7.5 million (US$89,800) in defamation compensation to senior paramilitary officer Harpreet Singh...
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