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US photographer for NPR and interpreter killed by rocket attack in Afghanistan
US photojournalist David Gilkey and interpreter Zabihullah Tamanna were killed yesterday whilst travelling with an Afghan army unit. The pair (pictured above – credit NPR) were in an armoured Humvee...
View ArticleNorwegian and American journalists killed in Taliban suicide blast
A Norwegian newspaper journalist was killed in a suicide bomb attack last night after Taliban fighters broke into a hotel in Afghanistan. Carsten Thomassen, 38, from Norwegian paper Dagbalet, died from...
View ArticleAfghan journalist to speak to Europe media about his brother's death sentence
Sayed Yaqub Ibrahimi, the brother of Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh, the journalist who has been sentenced to death in Afghanistan for blasphemy is to speak in Paris on 11 March at a Reporters Without Borders...
View ArticleAP image of a dying US marine causes outcry
International news agency, the Associated Press, has been criticised for publishing a picture of a dying US marine. The picture, which depicts Lance Cpl Joshua Bernard being tended to by fellow...
View ArticleNewspapers lose bid to show footage of a Royal Marine allegedly executing an...
A judge today ruled against newspapers seeking to publish footage of a British soldier allegedly executing an Afghan prisoner. The video has been already shown during the trial of three Royal Marines...
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Murdering marine named after press appeal could receive 'paedophile' prison...
The country’s top judge today defended the decision to name a Royal Marine convicted of murdering a wounded Afghan insurgent in September 2011. Lord Chief Justice Lord Thomas said Sgt Alexander Wayne...
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Two Royal Marine Commandos acquitted of murdering Afghan insurgent named
Two Marines cleared of murdering an Afghan insurgent in September 2011 have been named by the High Court following an application by media organisations. Corporal Christopher Glyn Watson and Marine...
View ArticleTwo arrested after Swedish radio journalist killed in Kabul
A Swedish radio journalist has been shot to death while he was talking to a translator on a street in Kabul. Nils Horner, 51, who also had British citizenship, had worked for Swedish Radio SR since...
View ArticleCPJ warns of increased safety risk for Afghanistan reporters after AFP...
Journalists in Afghanistan face increasing danger as the country's elections approach, the Committee to Protect Journalists has warned – after the "horrific murder" of an AFP reporter. Sardar Ahmad,...
View ArticleAssociated Press photographer killed and reporter injured in Afghanistan
A veteran Associated Press photographer has been killed and an AP reporter wounded when an Afghan policeman opened fire while they were sitting in their car in eastern Afghanistan. Anja...
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