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At least two journalists injured as police in India break up rally

March 14, 2018 1:31 PM EDT

New Delhi, March 14, 2018–The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on authorities in northeast India to investigate the beating of at least two journalists by police who broke up a student rally on March 10.

A pro-government fighter sits on the back of a military truck during clashes with Houthi fighters in the southwestern city of Taiz, Yemen on June 2, 2017. Photographer Mohammad al-Quadasi was killed in a missile strike in the Taiz governorate on January 22, 2018. (Reuters/Anees Mahyoub)

Missile strike kills local Yemeni photographer

January 22, 2018 5:19 PM EST

New York, January 22, 2018–The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the killing of Yemeni photographer Mohammad al-Qadasi in a missile strike allegedly by the Ansar Allah movement. Al-Qadasi, who worked for the privately owned Belqees TV station, was killed today in the Khayami area of Taiz governorate while on assignment, the channel’s director general Ahmed…

Civilians and members of the rescue organization, Syrian Civil Defense, run to the scene of an airstrike in Idlib province on January 3, 2018. An airstrike injured two Syrian journalists in the province on January 11. (AFP/Omar Haj Kadour)

Airstrike injures two Syrian reporters in southern Idlib

January 12, 2018 11:33 AM EST

Abdulkadir al-Bakri, a correspondent for the pro-opposition Qasioun News Agency in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib, and Abdulkadir al-Abdo, a reporter for pro-opposition Al-Jisr TV, were injured in a January 11, 2018 airstrike while covering clashes in the south of Idlib province, according to their employers and the Syrian Journalists’ Association.

Undercover Israeli security personnel detain a Palestinian demonstrator during clashes at a protest against U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, near the Jewish settlement of Beit El, near the West Bank city of Ramallah December 13, 2017. (Reuters/Mohamad Torokman)

Journalists assaulted covering protests in Jerusalem

December 13, 2017 5:39 PM EST

At least 13 journalists were injured while covering protests and violence that broke out in Gaza, the West Bank, and Jerusalem over U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement on December 7, 2017 that the U.S. will recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, according to local and regional press freedom groups and news reports. At least…

Security personnel evacuate employees of the Shamshad TV building after an attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2017. (AP/Massoud Hossaini)

Gunmen, suicide bombers attack Kabul TV station

November 7, 2017 3:56 PM EST

New York, November 7, 2017–The Committee to Protect Journalists strongly condemns the attack on a television station today in Kabul, Afghanistan. Gunmen and suicide bombers this morning attacked Shamshad TV, a leading Pashto-language station, killing one security guard and injuring at least 20 people including television staffers, Shamshad TV’s CEO and broadcast director, Nasim Pakhtoon,…

Security forces in Misiones, Argentina, display seized packets of Marijuana, August 25, 2009. (Reuters/Handout)

Radio journalist shot four times in northern Argentina

August 11, 2017 4:15 PM EDT

Unidentified gunman shot a local radio host in the Argentine province of Misiones, on July 26, 2017, according to press reports and Argentine journalists.

Artist and activist Thiyazen al-Alawi paints a mural on a wall of a hospital in Sanaa as part of a cholera-awareness campaign. In one of the biggest outbreaks of the disease in modern history, more than 425,000 people in Yemen have contracted cholera, nearly 2,000 of whom have died, since the Saudi-led coalition began bombing the country in 2015. (REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah)

Yemeni journalists injured in airstrike

August 3, 2017 11:14 AM EDT

Shawqi Hussein, a reporter for the broadcaster Al-Maseerah, and cameraman Kamal al-Kabsi were injured in an airstrike on July 30, 2017, in the Shabwa province town of Bayhan, Yahya al-Kabsi, a graphic designer in Al-Maseerah’s Beirut office, told CPJ.

Palestinians run from tear gas and sound grenades at a July 21, 2017, protest outside Jerusalem's old city. (Reuters/Ammar Awad)

Palestinian journalists injured covering West Bank protests

July 25, 2017 3:48 PM EDT

Beirut, July 25, 2017–Israeli authorities should independently and credibly investigate reports that Israeli security forces injured journalists covering protests in the West Bank last weekend, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. At least six Palestinian journalists were injured while covering protests in East Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Hebron on July 20 and 21, according to…

Andrea Rocchelli's passport is photographed on May 25, 2014, the day after his death. (AFP)

Italian police arrest Ukrainian man accused of killing photojournalist

July 6, 2017 6:55 PM EDT

New York, July 6, 2017–Italian authorities should fully investigate and prosecute all those responsible for the 2014 death of Italian photojournalist Andrea Rocchelli in Ukraine, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

Journalists take cover as a car bomb explodes in Mosul, May 16, 2017. (Reuters/Danish Siddiqui)

Iraqi fixer and French journalist killed in Mosul

June 20, 2017 5:54 PM EDT

Beirut, June 20, 2017–French cameraman Stephan Villeneuve and Iraqi fixer Bakhtiyar Haddad were killed in an explosion that also injured French journalists Veronique Robert and Samuel Forey as they covered Iraqi soldiers’ efforts to retake control of the old city of Mosul yesterday, according to news reports and the French journalists’ employers.