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The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned about the safety of a journalist in the Maldives who has been missing since early August and calls on authorities to thoroughly investigate his disappearance. Ahmed Rilwan Abdulla, reporter for the independent news website Minivan News, was last seen by his family and colleagues on August 7, according to news reports. A Minivan News report citing...

There has been a string of attacks on Yemeni journalists working for state-run outlets in the past week. At least one journalist has been killed and another survived an assassination attempt, according to the Ministry of Information and news reports. Abdul Rahman Hamid al-Din, a director and producer for the state-run Sanaa Radio, succumbed to his wounds in a hospital on August 16 after being shot...

Journalist Nery Francisco Soto Torres was shot dead by gunmen waiting outside his home in the town of Olanchito in Yoro state of Honduras on Thursday, according to news reports. Soto had returned home early from Canal 23, where he hosted a news programme, because of a power outage, according to news reports. Soto was also the co-producer of the programme "Cuarto Poder" (Fourth Estate) on Radio...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has issued a renewed appeal for authorities in Yemen to immediately increase protection for media workers in the country following an escalation in attacks over the last few days, including the murder of a senior journalist. According to IFJ affiliate, the Yemeni Journalists’ Syndicate (YJS) Abdulrahman Hameed Aldin, who worked for Sana’a Radio...

The Committee to Protect Journalists has condemned South Sudanese authorities' shutdown of the popular Catholic-run Bakhita Radio station in Juba, the capital, on Saturday and the ongoing detention of the station's news editor. Security agents raided the outlet in the morning and arrested four staff members, according to the station's managing director and news reports. Security forces arrested...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned the severe and unwarranted action of Somali security forces who last Friday raided and closed independent radio stations in Mogadishu and arrested 19 media workers. Sixteen of the journalists were subsequently released, but three are still being held. The IFJ has demanded that the three remaining journalists are released immediately...

Several journalists have been attacked and briefly detained in Egypt since Thursday while covering deadly clashes between supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood and security forces, according to news reports. At least seven have been killed in the clashes that began on Thursday when supporters of the ousted President Mohamed Morsi called for a commemoration of the first anniversary of the security...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has called on Colombian authorities to investigate the brutal murder of the journalist Luis Carlos Cervantes in north west Colombia and to ensure that his killers answer for their crimes. According to media reports, Cervantes, journalist and director of the radio station, Morena FM, based in the township of Tarazá, in Antioquia, was killed at noon...

The International Press Institute (IPI) is saddened to learn that media worker Ali Abu Afash was killed in Gaza on Wednesday, according to reports. Afash, who worked for the Gaza Centre for Media Freedom as a translator and journalist, had accompanied an IPI delegation during its visit to Gaza in 2013. Daoud Kuttab, an IPI board member who joined the fact-finding mission to Gaza last year, said:...

There have been repeated cyberattacks on Paris-based news website Rue89 and members of its staff and their families have been harassed since the site published a profile of an Internet hacker last month. Rue89 on July 29 published a profile by Benoit Le Corre of a self-described "militant Zionist" hacker, identified as a French national named Gregory Chelli, who says he is based in the Israeli...