Index on Censorship » journalist assaulted http://www.indexoncensorship.org for free expression Sat, 18 May 2013 18:40:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 for free expression Index on Censorship no for free expression Index on Censorship » journalist assaulted http://www.indexoncensorship.org/wp-content/uploads/powerpress/Free_Speech_Bites_Logo.jpg http://www.indexoncensorship.org Lebanon: At least nine journalists attacked covering clashes http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/06/lebanon-at-least-nine-journalists-attacked-covering-clashes/ http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/06/lebanon-at-least-nine-journalists-attacked-covering-clashes/#comments Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:23:15 +0000 Alice Purkiss http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=37817 At least nine Lebanese journalists have been attacked whilst covering ongoing clashes in Syria over the last month in four separate incidents. On 10 June, Ghadi Francis from Beirut-based TV station Al-Jadeed was attacked by the bodyguard of a politician participating in the internal elections of the local Syrian Social Nationalist Party. Francis was punched in the face [...]

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]]> Lebanese journalists have been attacked whilst covering ongoing clashes in Syria over the last month in four separate incidents. On 10 June, Ghadi Francis from Beirut-based TV station Al-Jadeed was attacked by the bodyguard of a politician participating in the internal elections of the local Syrian Social Nationalist Party. Francis was punched in the face and kicked several times. Firas Shoufi, another journalist, attempted to intervene, but was also beaten. On 21 May, cameraman Naji Mazboudi was threatened and beaten. Another Al-Jadeed journalist Rona al-Halabi and two cameramen were attacked by a group of unidentified men whilst covering clashes near the northern road of al-Abdanear Tripoli on 20 May. Similarly, a news crew from Russia Today were attacked and had their equipment destroyed on 17 May.

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]]> http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/06/lebanon-at-least-nine-journalists-attacked-covering-clashes/feed/ 0 Maldives: Journalist stabbed http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/06/maldives-journalist-stabbed/ http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/06/maldives-journalist-stabbed/#comments Wed, 06 Jun 2012 11:30:39 +0000 Alice Purkiss http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=37075 A prominent journalist in the Maldives is in a critical condition in hospital after being stabbed in the neck. Ismail “Hilath” Rasheed had his throat slit by an attacker on Monday evening, with the knife missing a vital artery by millimetres. In November, the journalist’s blog was blocked by the communication authority in the Maldives, who claimed [...]

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]]> Maldives is in a critical condition in hospital after being stabbed in the neck. Ismail “Hilath” Rasheed had his throat slit by an attacker on Monday evening, with the knife missing a vital artery by millimetres. In November, the journalist’s blog was blocked by the communication authority in the Maldives, who claimed it contained “anti-Islamic” material. A hospital source gave the journalist and blogger a five percent chance of survival.

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