'I kept telling them I'm a journalist but they kept beating me': Photographer beaten at Delhi protest
February 9, 2016 11:24 AM ET
As police cracked down on protesters in Delhi during recent protests over the treatment of Dalits, who occupy the lowest rungs of India's caste ladder, journalists were caught in the fray. The protests were sparked by the suicide of...
CPJ concerned for safety of injured journalist trapped in Turkish city
February 4, 2016 3:15 PM ET
New York, February 4, 2016--The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned for the safety of Rohat Aktaş, a news editor and reporter for the Kurdish-language daily Azadiya Welat, who has been trapped in the southeastern town of Cizre with a...
CPJ condemns attack on Tolo TV employees in Afghanistan
January 20, 2016 12:48 PM ET
New York, January 20, 2016--A suicide bombing in Kabul today killed seven employees from the Afghan station Tolo TV, according to news reports and the station. The attack on staff returning from work at the privately owned station injured...
Press trying to cover politics in Uganda face restrictions, attacks
January 15, 2016 4:37 PM ET
January 15, 2016--The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned that journalists in Uganda are being prevented from freely covering Parliament and campaigning for next month's presidential elections. The government announced this week that journalists without a university qualification will be...
CPJ condemns grenade attack on offices of Pakistani broadcaster
January 13, 2016 11:42 AM ET
New York, January 13, 2016--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns a grenade attack on the Islamabad offices of Pakistani broadcaster ARY News today. A video editor, Umar Hayat, was wounded in the attack, and windows at the front of...
Wife of Argentina reporter who denounced drug trafficking is raped
December 15, 2015 5:26 PM ET
New York, December 15, 2015--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the attack Friday on the home of Argentine radio journalist Sergio Hurtado, who reported on drug trafficking. The journalist's wife was raped in the attack in the town of San...
In Nigeria, journalist beaten outside court, has camera seized
December 15, 2015 3:07 PM ET
At least 10 people, including officers of the Nigerian Prisons Service, allegedly beat Emmanuel Elebeke, a journalist with the independent daily Vanguard, at the premises of a high court in the capital Abuja on November 12, 2015, according to news...
Journalist injured as gunmen open fire on press vehicle in Bangladesh
December 2, 2015 3:06 PM ET
On November 22, 2015 Rajib Sen Prince, the Chittagong district correspondent for the privately owned broadcaster Mohona TV, was injured when unidentified assailants opened fire on the press vehicle he was in. Sen had been covering the burial of Salauddin...
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