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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) have called on Russian authorities to carry out an immediate and thorough investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of journalist Timur Kuashev. According to IFJ affiliate, the Russian Union of Journalists (RUJ), Kuashev, 26, a special correspondent for Russia’s Dosh Magazine and...

The Committee to Protect Journalists has called on the state congress in Sinaloa to repeal a law passed on Wednesday that would severely restrict the ability of the press to report on crime scenes and criminal investigations. Local congressmen presented a bill on Friday that would repeal the law, according to an official statement. As the congress is in recess, the bill will not be voted upon...

Police should carry out a prompt, impartial, and thorough investigation into the death of an independent journalist in Russia’s North Caucasus, Human Rights Watch said Monday. Timur Kuashev, a freelance journalist and rights activist, was found dead in the outskirts of Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, on August 1, 2014. His friends and colleagues told Human Rights Watch they strongly...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate Afghanistan Independent Journalist Association (AIJA) have welcomed the verdict against the killer of AP photojournalist Anja Niedrignhaus as a blow to impunity to Afghanistan and the entrenched pattern of violence directed at both international and local media working within its borders. Naqibullah shot dead Niedrignhaus and...

The Committee to Protect Journalists has condemned the attack on Saturday on community radio station director Indalecio Benítez that resulted in the death of his 12-year-old son. Benítez is the founder of community radio station Calentana 98.1 FM in the city of Luvianos in Mexico State and is a prominent local figure, according to news reports. Early Saturday morning he was returning with his...

South Sudan’s National Security Service (NSS) should stop seizing and shutting down newspapers as well as harassing, intimidating, and unlawfully detaining journalists, two leading human rights organizations said Friday in a joint report. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said that against the backdrop of an internal armed conflict that has raged for seven months across much of the...

Pro-Russia separatists in the eastern Lugansk region of Ukraine abducted at least one journalist on Thursday, according to a local press freedom group and news reports. Separatists with the self-declared Lugansk People's Republic in Stakhanov, in Lugansk region, detained Yevgeny Timofeyev, a sports journalist who works for the local newspaper Futbolnoye Obozreniye (Soccer Observer), reports said...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has warned that the quality of Radio Television Hong Kong’s (RTHK) English language television service has been put at risk by the decision to not renew the contract of its senior executive producer, despite overwhelming support by staff. The move has angered staff and the IFJ has warned the move may also go against existing Hong Kong regulations...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has called for an investigation into events in Xinjiang Province, China, following the complete shutdown of the internet in Kashgar, and the blocking of reports of a deadly riot for three days. State-owned news agency Xinhua reported on July 30 that “dozens of Uyghur and Han civilians were killed and injured” early on the morning of July 28...

Addis Guday ("Addis Affairs") photojournalist Aziza Mohamed has been in custody for two weeks in Etiopia without charge. Police arrested Aziza on July 18 while she was covering Muslim protests near Anwar Mosque in the capital Addis Ababa, local journalists told the Committee to Protect Journalists. She is being held at the Addis Ababa police headquarters. Police investigators presented Aziza...