Corruption and Crime

Sun Hongjie, a newspaper reporter based in Kuitun, in the northwestern Chinese province of Xinjiang, is in deep coma since Monday as a result of the head injuries he received when he was attacked by four or five men on the night of December 18. Sun worked for the provincial daily Beijiang Chenbao (Beijang Morning Newspaper), Paris-based press freedom group Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has...

Radio presenter Francisco Gomes de Medeiros' murder on October 18 in the northeastern state of Rio Grande do Norte was carried out on the orders of a jailed drug trafficker, according to a report in the Diário de Natal daily newspaper on December 3, quoting the local police. Valdir Souza do Nascimento, who was arrested in 2007 and is now serving a sentence for drug trafficking in Alcaçuz prison...

Shots were fired with a big-calibre firearm at Radio FM Cerrillos, a local station based in San José de los Cerrillos, in the northern province of Salta, on November 26 but no one was injured although it is located in the house where station’s owner and his family live. The unidentified gunmen fled immediately after the shooting, according to Paris-based press freedom group Reporters sans...

A Reuters photographer suffered a gunshot wound to the shoulder and one of the fugitive murderers of TV Globo reporter Tim Lopes was arrested during a six-day operation by soldiers and elite police units against drug traffickers in the Morro de Alemão complex of favelas in northern Rio de Janeiro that ended on 26 November. The operation against one of the city’s biggest drug trafficking...

Sebahate Shala of the KosovaPress agency has been receiving threats since raising a sensitive issue about two members of the ruling Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) at a news conference that Andy Sparkes, the deputy head of the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX), gave on November 12, Paris-based press freedom group Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. Shala asked Sparkes...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has condemned Wednesday's shooting attack against Mexican newspaper El Sur in the port city of Acapulco, Guerrero state. Unidentified armed men fired at the paper and then stormed into the newsroom and threatened to set it on fire, according to local news reports and CPJ interviews. Around 10:30 p.m., gunmen aboard two trucks fired at the paper's premises...

Crime reporter Carlos Alberto Guajardo Romero was killed on Friday during crossfire between the Mexican army and gunmen in the border city of Matamoros, the NewYork-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported quoting local news. The shooting was among a series of violent events that took place the same day in Matamoros, and led to the killing of Antonio Ezequiel Cárdenas Guillén...

Violent attacks have been carried out against two journalists in the Moscow region. Both victims, Oleg Kashin of the business daily Kommersant and Anatoly Adamchuk of the independent weekly Zhukovskiye Vesti, have covered a contentious highway project that would go through a forest in the Moscow suburb of Khimki, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported. Kashin worked...

In a video posted Monday on the website of the daily newspaper El Diario (and subsequently posted on YouTube), the abducted brother of former Chihuahua state attorney general Patricia González, lawyer Mario Ángel González, has accused her of ordering the murder of two journalists. González is seen handcuffed and surrounded by five heavily armed masked men in the video. Responding to questions, he...

The South and East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) has expressed alarm at the threats received by TV B92 journalist Sonja Kamenkovic from Zajecar, Serbia. Since the end of August 2010 Kamenkovic has reported on the alleged violent behaviour of a police officer who reportedly injured two young men. The currently suspended police officer allegedly threatened, on several occasions, Kamenkovic and...