Posts Tagged ‘journalists attacked’
October 19th, 2011
The
security guards of a
Peruvian congressman have been involved in attack on two journalists. Carlos Chávez Galdós and Leucario Madera Guardaluna, from TV stations Compañía de TV Cuzqueña and Canal 47 de Cuzco, were attacked outside a nightclub in Cuzco, southern Peru, after they suprised Congressman Rubén Coa Aguilar while he was drunk. According to the journalists, the Congressman’s bodyguards and nightclub security personnel attacked them and took their video cameras, after Coa Aguilar asked his security to hit the reporters, take their equipment and delete their videos.
September 8th, 2011
Two
Yemeni journalists were
attacked by armed men on Monday. Abdul al-Hafeez al-Hatami from news website Al-Sahwa Net
and Raafat al-Amiri, cameraman for Suhail TV, an opposition news station, were covering the rising prices of oil in the western province of Hobeidah. The journalists were attacked by a group of men in Al-Duha district, who confiscated their camera, which was only returned after intervention and negotiations from a local tribe. This attack follows a similar attack on a BBC journalist in August, and previous attacks on Al-Sahwa Net and
Suhail TV, highlighting the increasing danger for journalists in Yemen.
August 18th, 2011
Members of security forces
attacked the Damascus home of the family of Moussa Al-Omar, a journalist based in London on 11 August. A host for Al-Hiwar TV, Al-Omar has interviewed many Syrian dissidents on his programme. Also on the same day, Myriam Haddad, a reporter for Mouqarabat was kidnapped while at a cafe in Damascus, and journalist Sami Al-Halabi was also arrested following a severe beating in the city of Suwayda.
April 4th, 2011
Hamas security officers in Gaza harassed and
attacked journalists covering recent protests. At least five journalists were attacked by police while covering peaceful protests commemorating Land Day on Wednesday (30 March). Journalists also had their equipment seized and confiscated. Later, in response to recent criticism, officials from Hamas’s Interior Ministry announced that they would no longer
detain or harass journalists without formal charges.
February 17th, 2011
Journalists trying to visit Chen Guangcheng, a human rights activist who is under
house arrest, have come under
attack to stop them from meeting him. A number of reporters have been attacked by men in plain-clothes who have set up checkpoints leading up to Guangcheng’s residence, and some have had their equipment confiscated or destroyed. A CNN reporter was
filmed being manhandled and then coming under a stone attack as he tried to make his way to visit Guangcheng.
February 15th, 2011
Journalists covering the anti-government protests in Yemen have come
under attack from the police and pro-government supporters. Many were physically
attacked in the course of covering the protests, while others had their equipment seized or destroyed.
