Tag: Press freedom

  • Israel to investigate IndyMedia over photo with “Murderer” accusation

    Rose Foran | The Media Line 22 June 2009 Israel’s Deputy State Prosecutor has launched a criminal investigation into a website that allegedly published a picture of an Israeli soldier with the word “Murderer” over his photograph. Indymedia Israel, a leftist news outlet, accused the soldier of killing a Palestinian protester with a gas canister…

  • Gaza wears a face of misery: interview with Philip Rizk

    Adam Makary | Al Jazeera 4 April 2009 Philip Rizk, 27, a freelance journalist and blogger who has been reporting from Gaza since 2005, was arrested by Egyptian security forces after a pro-Palestinian rally in Cairo on February 6. He was released a few days later without being charged. While in Gaza, he filmed The…

  • Israel attacks international media building in Gaza City

    10pm, 5th January 2009, Gaza City: A high-story building housing international media outlets in Gaza City has been targeted by the Israeli military. Seven rounds were fired from an apache helicopter into the building in which international media which houses international media outlets such as Reuters. Canadian Human Rights Activist Eva Bartlett was inside the…

  • AP: “Reporters hurt as Israeli security forces break up Palestinian demonstrations”

    Associated Press Crowd-control devices like stun grenades and tear gas have injured a number of journalists in recent weeks, including two television crewmen covering a women’s protest Thursday — and reporters are charging they’ve been targeted by Israeli security forces. Over the last three months, at least five journalists were injured — including an AP…

  • AP: Israeli army “accused of attacking journalists”

    Associated Press The Tel Aviv-based Foreign Press Association on Thursday accused the IDF of “unprovoked violence against journalists” after two Palestinian journalists were beaten up and one of them detained in the West Bank. “In both cases there is no evidence that either colleague was doing anything other than pursuing their journalistic duties,” the FPA…