Posts Tagged ‘riots’
March 20th, 2012
Three senior employees of a TV station in
Azerbaijan were
arrested on 13 March. Vugar Gonagov, executive director; Zaur Guliyev, editor, and Zaur Mustafayev, head of public relations at Khayal TV were arrested along with Jamil Mammadli, a reporter from Polygon news agency. The journalists were arrested following accusations they were implicated in riots in Quba in early March. The four men are being held, reportedly without charge, in Baku. The riots took place on 1 March, demonstrators gathered to demand the resignation of local government head, after a video appeared on YouTube showing him making derogatory remarks about residents.
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.
November 30th, 2011
A TV journalist in
Pakistan was shot and
critically injured during a riot on Sunday. Ehsan Kohati, a senior reporter for the Waqt News TV channel was wounded in
the chest and abdomen whilst reporting at a rally than turned violent in Karachi on November 27. Kohati was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he remains in a stable condition. Seven other people were injured and two were killed in the attack on a rally of Shiite Muslim mourners on the first day of the Islamic calendar month of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar.
September 22nd, 2011
Index on Censorship is concerned by
reports that news organisations are to hand over footage of August’s riots in England.
“Moves such as this force journalists to become the eyes and ears of the state, said John Kampfner, Chief Executive of Index on Censorship. “During the riots, we saw several incidents of photographers and broadcasters being attacked. The implication that any footage taken by them will be handed over to authorities will only serve to endanger on-the-ground media workers further in the future.”
“Already this week we have seen widespread outrage at attempts to make Guardian journalist Amelia Hill hand over journalistic materials. The Metropolitan Police Service is showing a worrying disregard for the principle of a free media.”
Contact enquiries@indexoncensorship.org / +44 (0) 20 7324 2522
August 17th, 2011
Two men jailed for four years over Facebook messages inciting disorder — their cases spark criticism of ”disproportionate” sentences. Sara Yasin reports
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May 19th, 2010
The South East Asia Press Alliance’s statement on media casualties in Bangkok
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