Tough times for "Journalists"

Afghanistan


A photojournalist from United Kingdom Giles Duley, who was seriously injured by bomb blast planted  roadside by taliban, on 7 February, while reporting with US and Afghan troops in Kandahar, Afghanistan, returned to England on 13 February for further medical care.


The 39-year-old photojournalist, who specialized in human rights issues and worked with various charity organizations, had to undergo many amputations at the local UN medical care center in Kandahar as a consequence of the injuries caused by bomb blast.


Giles Duley’s brother, David, was reported as told that Giles had lost one of his leg below the knee and another above the knee. Also his left arm had to be amputated above the elbow. He is currently being hospitalized at Queen Elizabeth hospital in Birmingham.We don't know how long they treat my brother.


Egypt

And an other story streets of Cairo, Anderson Cooper (CNN) talk viewers his Thursday show from an undisclosed, dimly lit room in Cairo, saying that he was "a little bit worry" for his safety in Egypt.


Cooper was punched repeatedly and attacked for minutes by a riot of supporters of President Hosni Mubarak on Wednesday. On Thursday, another group of pro-Hosni forces smashed a rock through his car window while he and his crew were in it. Cooper had been reporting from the Cairo streets, but by Thursday night he had gone to under ground.


"I can't ask you where i am, frankly for my own safety," Cooper said. "Systematically, we have seen reporters attacked...we would like to be showing you instead of...this strange sitchuation of us sitting on the floor of an undisclosed location in dim lighting, i would like to be showing you pictures, live pictures, of what's happened in Liberation Square right now, but we can't do that because our cameras have systematically been taken down through threats, through intimidation, through actual physical attacks." They were saying us "CIA agent" "CIA agent" "CIA agent"


He ask after, "I don't mind telling you I am a little bit scared, because i frankly don't really know what the next few time will hold. And I think there's a lot of people who are scared tonight in Egypt."


Libya


Reporting in Libya is too tough, where a pro-democracy uprising is being brutally suppressed, has become "virtually impossible," a media freedom group warned Wednesday, reported.


Even before the current crackdown on protesters in Libya it was difficult to reporting from Libya, 


"It is now some time impossible for a journalist to work," group of journalists from Paris said.


The few foreign journalists who were already in Libya before the uprising began were under heavy surveillance and regional broadcasters, including Al Jazeera, have had their signals jammed.


The conditions have prevented all but a trickle of information reaching the outside world.


Past 48 hours several foreign reporters have managed to smuggle into the country through Egypt, but the conditions are extremely dangerous and hazardous.


The deputy foreign minister of Libya, Khaled Khaim, on Wednesday said journalists who entered Libya illegally would be considered "outlaws" and "as if they are collaborating with al-Qaeda."


(source: huffingtonpost.com : trend.az : freemedia.at)