Murders and abductions of athletes and sport officials are rapidly becoming the norm in Iraq. In July 2006, most of Iraq’s Olympic Committee was abducted by men in uniforms, the coach of the Iraqi wrestling team was murdered and Iraq’s national football coach resigned following death threats.

Knowledge bank: Laura Robinson wrote Crossing the Line: Violence and Sexual Assault in Canada’s National Sport and Black Tights: Women, Sport and Sexuality. In this article and book review, she writes a personal and open letter to Sheldon Kennedy - a victim of sexual violence in Canadian Hockey.

Knowledge bank: Fillipos Syrigos made himself highly unpopular when he exposed a scam revolving around the Greek Karaiskaki Stadium.

In Bangladesh, a group of sports journalists and press photographers are still waiting to hear the outcome of an official government probe into a brutal police attack on them at a cricket test match between Bangladesh and Australia at the end of April. The Asian Human Rights Commission is concerned about the delay of the report and allegations that the probe commission has listened to fake eyewitnesses.

Two radio journalists in Peru were physically assaulted by the manager of a professional football club as they were reporting on a match played 31 May

On 2 May 2006, a small news reporting team investigating a story was assaulted by a group of professional football players from Club Sport Ancash, writes the Institute for Press and Society (IPYS), Lima. The incident took place in Huaraz, capital of the Ancash region in northwestern Peru.

In Bangladesh, the government has set up an independent inquiry to find out why police attacked 20 sports journalists and photographers at Chittagong Divisonal Stadium during the lunch break of a cricket match between Bangladesh and Australia on Sunday 16 April.

A Danish sports editor has reported a death threat to the police after a sponsor of a local handball club threatened to "smash up your face and find some people to kill you."