Posts Tagged ‘photographer’
December 14th, 2012
A pipe bomb
was defused early this morning after it was planted outside of the home of
Northern Ireland press photographer Mark Pearce. While no one has
taken responsibility for the attack, Pearce believes he was targeted for his work, but does not remember a recent photograph that could have angered of one of the country’s banned paramilitary groups.
Northern Ireland
has recently seen a rise in tensions after Belfast officials last week decided to fly the Union flag on certain days, rather than displaying it year round, sparking protests from loyalists.
September 17th, 2010
A 21-year-old photographer for a newspaper in the crime-torn border city of Juárez, Mexico, was
shot and killed, and an intern was wounded, in an attack 16 September. The victims worked for
Diario de Juarez, a newspaper that has not stopped reporting on drug-gang violence. The journalists were driving to lunch when gunmen in two cars intercepted them and opened fire in broad daylight, newspaper director Pedro Torres
said. Santiago had only started working for the newspaper
two weeks ago, and Sanchez is an intern, so it is unknown why they were targeted.
February 12th, 2010
An award winning Uzbek photographer sentenced to jail after a court ruled she had
insulted the nation, has been released thanks to an amnesty.
Umida Akhmedova said that she had done nothing wrong and will therefore
appeal on the verdict. Akhmedova could have faced six months in jail or two years in a labour camp.
February 11th, 2010
An
Iraqi photographer who was arrested in his Mahmudiya home by the US military on 1 September 2008 has been released.
Ibrahim Jassam Mohammed was
held for 17 months without charge at Camp Cropper, near Baghdad, despite a ruling by Iraq’s central criminal court on 30 November 2008 that he should be released. The US prison authorities claimed the journalist represented a security threat but refused to make specific allegations.
February 5th, 2010
Photographer and documentary film-maker
Umida Akhmedova has been charged with slandering and insulting the Uzkbek people. Under articles 139 and 140 of the criminal code the charges carry a maximum sentence of
three years in jail. Akhmedova’s crime was to photograph men and women living in poverty in Uzbekistan, she also made a documentary about women’s rights.
