Reporter forcibly detained over political footage
DECEMBER 31, 2007 Posted January 18, 2008 Muneeza Jahangir, Geo TV ATTACKED, DETAINED According to the Asian Human Rights Commission, Jahangir, a reporter for Geo TV, was filming torn posters and banners of political parties in Lahore. Armed men ordered Jahngir, her sister Sulema, and some of their friends to follow them to the Pakistan…
The Year of Reporting Dangerously – Death Toll for Journalists Rises in 2007
Joel Simon Published in The Huffington Post December 18, 2007 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joel-simon/the-year-of-reporting-dan_b_77208.html Do you know the names Salih Said Aldin, Khalid W. Hassan, or Namir Noor-Eldeen? All three were reporters for international media outlets who were killed in Iraq in the last year.
U.S. says AP photographer in Iraq will be charged
New York, November 20, 2007—The U.S. military has said it plans to prosecute an award-winning Associated Press photographer it has held for more than 19 months without charge for alleged links to Iraqi insurgents, but has not revealed evidence of the journalist’s alleged criminal wrongdoing. The U.S. military informed the AP on Sunday that it…
Mass arrest of journalists in Karachi
New York, November 20, 2007 — The Committee to Protect Journalists is angered by the arrest of more than 180 journalists today who were protesting Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf’s government’s crackdown on media following his declaration of a state of emergency on November 3. Mazhar Abbas, the secretary general of the Pakistan Federal Union of…