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The International Federation of Journalists has called on the Pakistani government to take every step necessary to bring the murderers of journalist Nadeem Hyder to swift justice. According to reports, Nadeem, a correspondent for Dunya News, was shot dead by two unknown assailants who in the town of Hafizabad last Friday, 3 October. The killers fled the scene. Local police are said to have...

The National Revolutionary Police in Cuba have arrested and threatened independent journalist Bernardo Arévalo for the second time in a less than month. This time they arrested both him and his wife as they were travelling to the northern province of Matanzas on 28 September. They held Arévalo for two hours, forced him to undress, took his USB flash drive with four articles he had written for El...

Turkey risks a serious backslide in democracy unless a recent trend of erosion of media freedom is reversed, the International Press Institute (IPI) warned Tuesday last at the close of a joint press freedom mission to the country with the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). The warning followed a four-day mission in which an international IPI/CPJ delegation met with journalists, academics...

A Honduran appeals court has forbidden journalist Julio Ernesto Alvarado from practicing journalism for 16 months as part of a criminal defamation conviction, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Alvarado hosts the daily news programme "Mi Nación" (My Nation) on Globo TV. "The decision to ban Julio Ernesto Alvarado from his profession for 16 months is outrageous," said Carlos...

Private radio and TV station B92 in Serbia has decided to drop a political talk show following political pressure. Utisak nedelje (‘‘The Impression of the Week’’ in English) has been run by the well-known journalist Olja Bećković. The talk show has been broadcasting for 24 years and has been well received among the audience. It is considered as one of the few programmes critically...

The Irrawaddy, an independent media group dedicated to Burma news and analysis, has been plagued by threats and cyberattacks, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). On Thursday last, hackers referring to themselves as the "Blink Hacker Group" replaced the home page of The Irrawaddy's English-language website with a message accusing it of supporting "jihad & radical Muslims"...

The home of a Mexican crime and politics beat reporter was attacked early Monday morning in Zacatecas state, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Unidentified gunmen shot at the home and vehicle of Margarito Juárez González at around 4 a.m. as he and his family slept, according to his employer, the daily Página 24. The house and the car were damaged, but no one was harmed in...

The Belarusian Association of Journalists has declared it unlawful to prosecute reporters whose names and materials appear in foreign mass media. Pressure on these journalists bears clear characteristics of threat and blackmailing, and contradicts national legislative norms as well as to obligations of the Republic of Belarus to ensure freedom of information under international agreements, it said...

Russian authorities have decided to reopen the investigation into the murder of Dagestani journalist Akhmednabi Akhmednabiyev. The investigation, launched after the journalist’s shooting in July 2013, was suspended in the summer of 2014. Local authorities failed to identify the perpetrators or instigators, effectively ensuring impunity for his killing. Akhmednabiyev, a reporter for online news...

The Al Yemen El Yawm TV station, based in Yemen’s capital city Sanaa, has now been closed for over three months. The Yemeni government closed the station in June accusing it of inciting rebellion against it. Members of Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi’s Presidential Guard stormed the television station which is affiliated to Abdullah Saleh, looting the building and confiscating equipment. The...