A cameraman for Iranian English-language news network Press TV has died nearly a week after he was injured when a rocket hit the network’s Kabul office as gunmen attacked buildings near the U.S. embassy and NATO headquarters. Press TV reported Tuesday that Farhad Taqaddosi died in a hospital in the Afghan capital city earlier that […]

A week after the death of a photojournalist in violent clashes in Tunisia, IPI urges the authorities to investigate. Lucas Mebrouk Dolega, 32, who worked for European Press Photo Agency (EPA) was struck on Friday 14 January by a police tear-gas canister between his temple and his left eye. Witnesses claim he was deliberately targeted […]

(Versione italiana in calce) Hamas officials have said they found the body of an Italian journalist and activist who was kidnapped yesterday in Gaza, reports say. Vittorio Arrigoni, 36, was affiliated with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), a pro-Palestinian rights group, and reported on Palestinian issues for the left-wing Italian newspaper Il Manifesto and Peacereporter, […]

Al Jazeera cameraman Ali Hasan Al-Jaber was killed and two others wounded in an apparent ambush by unknown gunmen on Saturday, the network reported. According to the Doha-based news group, Al-Jaber was returning to the rebel-held city of Benghazi after reporting on protests in a nearby town when his vehicle was fired upon. He was […]