Posts Tagged ‘journalists arrested’
February 17th, 2012
Three
Tunisian journalists have
been arrested on charges of offending public morality following the publication of a nude photograph. The Attounissia newspaper
printed a photograph of Real-Madrid footballer Sami Khedira covering the breasts of his otherwise naked girlfriend, model Lena Gercke. The photograph drew an angry response from the country’s public prosecutor, resulting in the arrest of the newspaper’s publisher Nasreddine Ben Said, Habib Guizani, its editor-in- chief, and its world editor Hedi Hidhri. The photo was a reprint of a 2012 cover of the German edition of GQ Magazine.
December 7th, 2011
Six media offices have
been attacked, and 16 journalists have been threatened and assaulted in
Iraqi Kurdistan during
widespread riots. The offices of a number of media organisations owned by opposition group the Kurdistan Islamic Union (KIU) were set on fire. KIU offices in the cities of Dohuk, Zakho, and Simel were also attacked. Local reports stated that between six and 10 KIU journalists had been arrested since 2 December.
December 7th, 2011
Activists and opposition politicians arrested as Russians speak out against the prime minister’s party. Elena Vlasenko reports
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September 26th, 2011
The
Chinese authorities are
holding a group of South Korean journalists from a daily newspaper on suspicion of spying. The group, which is believed to consist of four journalists, the head of a Seoul-based government transport research centre and a local guide, were arrested near China’s border with North Korea on 20 September whilst reportedly travelling on tourist visas.
March 29th, 2011
Reporters Aleksandr Lomashkin and Ales Asiptsu were
arrested in separate incidents on Thursday, 24 March. Both were detained on the eve of
“Freedom Day”, an unofficial holiday traditionally
celebrated by members of the opposition. Lomashkin is a Russian journalist who worked in Belarus and founded the human rights website
Svoboda. He was forced to get off a train at the Belarusian border and was searched by two officers who claimed that they were looking for drugs. He was
arrested for “insulting an officer” and imprisoned for three days. Asipstu is an independent Belarusian journalist who was also arrested for allegedly “urinating in a public place.”
February 28th, 2011
Chief editor Ram Pukar Raut, and editor Pravin Sharma Jha, of the New Times Today have been
arrested by police in the Southern Nepalese district of Rautahat. They were charged with having links with a militant underground group, and printing a press release from the group. Sources from the newspaper assert that the arrests were a response to an article in the newspaper alleging that the police had taken bribes from an animal smuggler.
February 18th, 2011
In a bid to stifle anti-government protests, the Iranian government has intensified its censorship, especially of online media, and
arrested journalists covering demonstrations. Opposition websites and independent news websites have come under cyber-attacks limiting their functionality. Bloggers and journalists reporting on the protests continue to be arrested, and security forces have also reportedly
beaten relatives of detained protestors.
November 8th, 2010
The authorities have
arrested 10 journalists employed by a news agency run by a son of Muammar Gaddafi. Saif al-Islam Gaddafi is seen as a reformist and has been increasingly critical of his father’s government. The six men and four women were detained at the office of Libya Press on Friday. Officials have
not yet provided a reason for the arrests. Last week, another part of Gaddafi media empire, the Oea newspaper, had its
printing suspended by the government.
