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Unidentified individuals shot and killed Dominican journalist Normando García Thursday evening in the city of Santiago, 102 miles (163 km) north of the capital, Santo Domingo. The Nw York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is investigating whether García's murder is linked to his journalistic work. At around 6:40 p.m., García, a cameraman for the daily news program "Detrás de la Noticia"...

With new allegations of the beating of a journalist by soldiers, the Mexican military must develop procedures to ensure that the press can cover its operations, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has insisted. Mexican reporter Jorge Inzunza Bustillos was harassed and beaten by members of the Mexican army while covering a shooting in the western city of Culiacán on Monday...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Monday called on Russian, Georgian and any other combat forces involved in the conflict in the region to respect the rights of media workers and protect their safety after it received reports that two journalists were killed and at least two others wounded in South Ossetia. Georgian Alexander Klimchuk, a photojournalist working for Russian news...

Filipino radio commentator Dennis Cuesta, who was shot at near his office on August 4, succumbed to his injuries at a General Santos City hospital on Saturday, New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported. Local press freedom groups told CPJ that they believe his murder was related to his work. Cuesta's colleague Mel Coronel told the Associated Press that the journalist never...

The Centre is planning to have a fresh look at the Content Code in television programmes as it feels that the current one has become outdated, the Press Trust of India (PTI) has reported. "We are contemplating a review of the existing Content Code as it needs to be at par with changing times," Secretary in the Information and Broadcasting Ministry, Sushma Singh, said here on Saturday while...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is sorry for improperly obtaining the telephone records of US. newspaper reporters working in Indonesia. FBI Director Robert Mueller apologised Friday to New York Times editor Bill Keller and Washington Post editor Leonard Downie Jr for the 2004 incidents, in which agents used so-called national security letters to obtain the reporters' phone records, the Times...

Filipino radio broadcaster Martin Roxas was shot dead on August 7 by a gunman riding pillion on a motorcycle in Roxas City, according to the Centre for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR). The province is approximately 411 km southeast of Manila. Roxas, programme director of dyKR-Radio Mindanao Network (RMN) in Roxas City, was shot in the neck. Roxas was himself on a motorcycle. He was...

The editor-in-chief of independent news website Ingushetiya has fled Russia and is seeking asylum in Europe, daily the Moscow Times reported Thursday. Ingushetiya's lawyer, Kaloy Akhilgov, told CPJ that Roza Malsagova left Russia two weeks ago after being harassed, threatened, and beaten by Ingush authorities. She also faces criminal prosecution. Earlier this year, regional prosecutors opened...

Regional authorities in Dagestan have decided to open a criminal case against Nadira Isayeva, editor-in-chief of an independent weekly, after the newspaper quoted a former guerilla leader in an article. According to news website Lenta, regional prosecutors in Dagestan's capital, Makhachkala, charged Isayeva with making public calls to extremism and incitement of hatred; if convicted, she faces up...

Zimbabwean freelance photojournalist Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi has decided to flee to South Africa with his family after being assaulted by the police and having his car confiscated, the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) has reported. Before leaving the country, Mukwazhi told MISA-Zimbabwe that the police accused him of possessing an "improperly registered vehicle" and of having used the...