Attacks on the Press in 2010 - Committee to Protect Journalists

<strong>Attacks</strong> on the Press in 2010Communist Party’s north regional bureau said Pandey was a member,although party leaders also called him a journalist in local news reports.The Indian Journalists’ Union and the Andhra Pradesh Union ofWorking Journalists raised “serious doubts about the circumstances”of Pandey’s death and demanded an independent inquiry.Iraq: 1november 21, 2010, mosulMazen Mardan al-Baghdadi, Al-MosuliyaThree armed men shot al-Baghdadi, 18, a presenter for Al-Mosuliyatelevision, at the door of his home, according to news reports. Themen identified themselves as military intelligence agents when theyarrived at the home that evening, the journalist’s father told the localpress freedom group Society to Defend Press Freedom in Iraq.“They said that they needed to see Mazen urgently,” the father wasquoted as saying. The men opened fire when al-Baghdadi arrived atthe door, shooting him twice in the head, the father said.Al-Baghdadi was a presenter for two news talk shows on Al-Mosuliya.He had worked at the station for seven months. Authorities disclosedno motive for the killing.Mexico: 7january 2010, los mochisJosé Luis Romero, Línea Directa318Masked men kidnapped Romero as he entered a restaurant in LosMochis about 6 p.m. on December 30, 2009, bundling the reporterinto a waiting SUV, according to news reports and CPJ interviews.Eliu Lorenzo Patiño, a former military officer who was accompanyingRomero, was also abducted and remained missing in late year.The detective assigned to the abductions was himself murdered aboutsix hours after the kidnappings were reported, Mexican press reportssaid. The state attorney general told reporters that the two cases mightbe connected, according to press reports.On January 16, 2010, Romero’s body was found along a rural roadnear Los Mochis, said Rolando Bon López, Sinaloa’s assistant state