Immigration officer assaults Nigerian journalist
June 13, 2012 5:04 PM ET
Abuja, June 13, 2012--A Nigerian journalist was assaulted by an immigration officer in the capital, Abuja, Tuesday, according to local journalists and news reports. Joshua Uma, a journalist with the daily Leadership, was on assignment covering a protest by...
Journalist assaulted by police in Ivory Coast
June 12, 2012 4:10 PM ET
New York, June 12, 2012--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the Ivorian police's assault on a journalist on June 5 and calls on authorities to ensure the officers are brought to justice. Two officers attacked Cybèle Athangba, a reporter...
In Kyrgyzstan, injustice and torture in Askarov case
June 12, 2012 12:01 AM ET
Azimjon Askarov, an investigative reporter and human rights defender, had ended careers and embarrassed officials time and again with his reporting on law enforcement abuses in southern Kyrgyzstan. When ethnic unrest broke out in June 2010, authorities struck back with...
Gunmen shoot Somali journalist in Mogadishu
June 11, 2012 5:16 PM ET
Nairobi, June 11, 2012--A Somali radio journalist was shot by two gunmen in Mogadishu on Friday, according to news reports. Mohamed Nur Mohamed, who was hit twice in the abdomen, survived the attack, the reports said. Mohamed, a correspondent...
In China, press rights equal press control
June 11, 2012 3:03 PM ET
China's state news agency Xinhua published the full text of the state council's National Human Rights Action Plan 2012-15 on Monday. There is no section dedicated to press freedom. But the most striking omissions can be found in the...
Amid assaults on press, Uganda police promise reforms
June 8, 2012 5:18 PM ET
Joseph Mutebi, a photojournalist for the popular vernacular state-owned daily Bukedde, spent his afternoon trying to file a complaint with the police in the capital, Kampala. "First they told me the officer who assaulted me was based at another...
Mission tells Nepal: No excuse for deferring press freedom
May 31, 2012 10:34 AM ET
As Nepal's constituent assembly failed to meet Sunday's deadline for the passage of a new constitution, a new report released this week on the risks to Nepal's media should remind political parties that peace and stability are not prerequisites to...
Even by Pakistani standards, a terrible month for press
May 24, 2012 4:02 PM ET
May has been a terrible month for journalists in Pakistan, a country that has ranked as the world's deadliest place for the press for two consecutive years. Two journalists have been killed, two more shot and wounded, and one attacked...
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