Corruption and Crime

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...

A suspended prison sentence was handed to a Gabonese journalist this week over an article raising questions about the unsolved murder of a government official, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). On Monday, a criminal court in the capital, Libreville, convicted Jonas Moulenda, a reporter with the state-owned daily L’Union, on charges of criminal defamation and gave him a...

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...

Two newspapers in sudan failed to appear on newsstands over the weekend, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Sudanese authorities blocked printing of the opposition weekly Al-Maidan late Saturday after its staff failed to provide security personnel with an advance copy of the paper, Al-Maidan journalist Abdelgadir Mohammed Abdelgadir told CPJ. Abdelgadir said government...

Two months after the murder of Colombian journalist Clodomiro Castilla Ospino, the investigation is stalled and the victim’s daughter has been forced to flee her hometown of Montería after being followed and harassed, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Castilla, editor and publisher of the local news magazine El Pulso del Tiempo, was shot by two unidentified assailants on a...

A former police officer has been convicted in connection with the 2009 murder of Venezuelan journalist Orel Sambrano in the northern city of Valencia, according to Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). A court in Carabobo state sentenced Rafael Segundo Pérez, a former Carabobo police sergeant, to 25 years in prison on Tuesday on conspiracy charges related to the murder, according to press...

Salvadorean authorities have arrested another suspect in their investigation into the September 2009 murder of Christian Poveda, a documentary filmmaker with dual French and Spanish nationality, according to Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). The latest detainee is Iván Antonio Leiva, 23, an alleged member of the “Mara 18” gang who was wanted on suspicion of directly participating in Poveda’s murder...

Death threats have been made against two television reporters who covered the March murder of colleague Nahúm Palacios Arteaga in the region of Aguán, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Ricardo Oviedo, a reporter for the cable TV station Channel 40 in the city of Tocoa, Colón state, has received threatening messages in the last week, according to press reports and a CPJ...

Salvadorean authorities say they have arrested the gang leader who ordered documentary filmmaker Christian Poveda’s murder, according to Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). Poveda, who had dual French and Spanish nationality, was gunned down in an outlying district of San Salvador on September 2, 2009. Accused of various crimes and regarded by the police as one of the main leaders of the “Mara 18”...

Two journalists who went missing Tuesday after an ambush in Oaxaca state in southern Mexico were rescued late Thursday by local police, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Érika Ramírez and David Cilia, reporters with the national newsweekly Contralínea, were found Thursday night in a forest near the Hierba Santa River, the news agency EFE reported. The journalists were taken...