Corruption and Crime

Miguel Angel Villa Gómez Valle, editor of Noticias de Michoacán, a daily newspaper based in Lázaro Cárdenas, in the southwestern Mexican state of Michoacán was abducted and killed last week, according to Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). Villa Gómez’s bullet-riddled body was found October 10 morning in a refuse dump, less than 12 hours after he went missing. “The list of kidnappings and execution...

The editor in chief of Bulgarian news site Frog News was beaten unconscious by three masked attackers Monday evening in Sofia. The 54-year old journalist Ognyan Stefanov was attacked soon after he left a restaurant as the three men said they were policemen before they started battering the victim, Sofia News Agency reported. The editor and his family had recently received anonymous phone calls...

Repeated death threats have been made since May against Juan Parada, contributor to regional daily Río Negro and radio FM Patagonia, in Chos Malal, Neuquén province in the southwest, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. The threats appear linked to his exposure of corruption involving local officials at the courts and the municipal authority as well as police excesses. Parada also gave...

Magomed Yevloyev, the owner of a Russian opposition Internet site who was shot dead on Sunday, was the latest in a series of Russian journalists to have been killed or to die in suspicious circumstances. Media freedom groups say Russia is one of the world's most dangerous countries for journalists and that no one has been prosecuted over most of the deaths. Here are some of the most high-profile...

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...

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...

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"...

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...

A reporter for a local Thai-language daily and a television station was shot dead inside his home on August 1 in Nakorn Sri Thammarat province, according to the hai Journalists Association (TJA). Police identified the victim as Athiwat Chaiyanurat, a reporter for Matichon newspaper and stringer for the army-owned Channel 7 television station. TJA condemned the killing of Athiwat as a reckless and...

During the weekend of July 26-27, unidentified individuals broke into the offices of CIMAC (Comunicación e Información de la Mujer), a Mexico City-based non-govermental organisation that reports on women's issues through the "Cimacnoticias" news agency. The assailants stole some of the organisation's equipment and destroyed a number of documents. CIMAC editor Carolina Velázquez explained in an...