A cameraman working for Nigerian broadcaster Channels Television was assaulted on Tuesday in a clash that erupted following an attack on the vehicle of the Action Congress (AC) governorship candidate in Ekiti State, according to local media reports, and Channels Television News Editor Ronke Raji. Felix was attacked when he attempted to film the violence. […]

In a video released by the Taliban in Afghanistan on Monday, two French journalists who were kidnapped in December say they will be killed unless the Taliban’s demands are met. The two journalists, Stephane Taponnier and Herve Ghesquiere, both employed by France 3 television, were kidnapped in December in Afghanistan’s northeastern Kapisa province, along with […]

A Reuters cameraman was among at least 21 people killed in clashes between anti-government protesters and security forces in Thailand’s capital, Bangkok, on Saturday. Hiro Muramoto, 43, a Japanese national who had been employed with Reuters’ Tokyo bureau for the past fifteen years, was reporting on the violence that gripped Bangkok over the weekend, when […]

The Thai authorities forced opposition TV broadcaster People TV off the air again on Saturday, a day after opposition ‘Red Shirt’ protestors overran an army blockade and briefly forced the government to reverse its earlier decision to censor the channel. An army spokesperson said security forces had taken action at the broadcaster late on Friday, […]