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Faiz Muhammad Sasoli, a reporter based in Khuzdar District, in the southwestern province of Balochistan, was killed in hail of submachine-gunfire Sunday, according to Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). Sasoli, who worked for the Aaj Kal daily newspaper and the Independent News of Pakistan agency, had escaped two previous murder attempts. His death brings to six the number of media workers killed...

Newspaper reporter Nestor Bedolido was shot and killed by an unidentified gunmen on Saturday evening in Digos City, Davao del Sur province, in the southern Philippines, according to local and international news reports. He is the third journalist to be murdered over the past week in the Philippines, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said. Bedolido, 50, a reporter with The Kastigador...

The Committee to Protect Journalist (CPJ) has welcomed the arrival in the United States of Sri Lankan journalist JS Tissainayagam, who arrived at Washington’s Dulles International Airport on Saturday morning. He was met there by friends. According to CPJ representative Kamel Labidi, who was on hand to meet Tissa, “He was all smiles, and said to thank everyone who helped him gain his freedom.”...

Philippine radio commentator Joselito Agustin was fatally shot by two motorcycle riding assailants while heading home from work late Tuesday evening near Baccara town in the northern Philippines, according to local and international news reports. The murder occurred just one day after the murder of radio journalist Desidario Camangyan in southern Mindanao. Agustin died from four gunshot wounds on...

A gunman shot broadcast journalist Desidario Camangyan from behind at close range while he was on stage hosting an amateur singing contest in Manay town, Davao Oriental province, on the southern island of Mindanao, Monday, according to Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Camangyan died at the scene from a single shot to the head in front of the contest’s audience, which included his wife and 6...

The Dhaka high court has stayed the cancellation of Amar Desh’s licence for three months, which allowed the opposition daily to bring out an issue Friday for the first time in 10 days, according to Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). Amar Desh was back on the newsstands with a special four-page edition that was welcomed by the newspaper’s regular readers. In the same ruling, the high court also...

Charges of sedition have been brought against Mahmudur Rahman, the chief editor of the opposition daily Amar Desh, according to Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). A national daily, the now closed Amar Desh is close to the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party. “In the space of a few days, Rahman has been accused of fraud, obstructing the police, printing an outlawed group’s posters and now...

An Indonesian newspaper reporter in the western province of Aceh has had to go into hiding after being threatened and beaten by an army officer over a report about illegal logging, according to Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). The reporter, who just uses the name Ahmadi, works for the local daily Harian Aceh. “It is unacceptable just days after World Environment Day on June 5 that a journalist is...

The police on Wednesday closed down the Bengali-language, pro-opposition daily Amar Desh based in capital Dhaka, according to Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Police cited supposed publishing irregularities when they arrested acting editor Mahmudur Rahman early Wednesday, news reports said, but the shutdown appeared to be politically motivated. On Tuesday, the newspaper’s publisher, Hashmat...

Freelance Italian photojournalist Fabio Polenghi was killed and three international journalists were among dozens of people injured today during clashes in Bangkok, according to international news reports. The fighting followed a military operation to clear an area occupied for six weeks by anti-government protesters. Demonstrators attacked and threatened local media outlets for perceived...