State Impunity

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...

The security situation for reporters has been deteriorating in Thailand as government forces and anti-government protesters exchange fire in the national capital. Three journalists were shot and injured on Friday when security forces and protesters exchanged fire that resulted in at least seven deaths and more than 100 injuries, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported. Three...

The body of Sindh-based journalist Ghulam Rasool Birhamani was found Monday morning, outside the village of Wahi Pandhi in Sindh province. The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) and the Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) reported that the journalist was abducted the evening before his body was discovered. They also reported that his body was badly scarred and showed evidence of torture or...

New demands have been made by a militant group calling itself the Asian Tigers, the captors of freelance journalist Asad Qureshi, who has been held in Pakistan since March 26, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). In a video sent to the Rome-based news agency Adnkronos International Tuesday, the abductors insisted that Pakistan release at least 160 Islamic militants in exchange...

A reporter for independent news outlets was found shot to death Thursday morning in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul after being abducted Wednesday in Arbil, capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, according to news reports. Authorities in both cities must conduct a thorough investigation into the murder of Sardasht Osman and bring those responsible to justice, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said...

Three gunmen shot dead veteran broadcast Somalian journalist Sheik Nur Mohamed Abkey on Tuesday evening as he was returning home from work at the state-run Radio Mogadishu, local journalists told the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Gunmen abducted Abkey, left, near his residence in Wardhigley, southern Mogadishu, and shot him repeatedly in the head. Local journalists said they suspect...

A militant group has executed a former Pakistani intelligence official who was abducted along with documentary filmmaker Asad Qureshi, according to Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Khalid Khawaja, a retired Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) official, was found dead of multiple bullet wounds in North Waziristan on Friday, according to local and international news reports. Khawaja and another...

Four journalists who covered the recent dismissal of the electoral commission chairman received anonymous death threats via text message on Wednesday, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and news reports. The messages, sent from the same number, said the reporters would meet the fate of three slain Nigerian journalists. “We will deal with you soon. Remember Dele Giwa, Bayo Ohu...

Three Nigerian journalists were killed in two separate incidents over the weekend. Muslim rioters killed two reporters working with a local Christian newspaper on Saturday, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Also on Saturday, court reporter Edo Sule Ugbagwu, from the private daily The Nation was shot dead at his home by two gunmen, according to local journalists. "Reporting...

Newspaper editor Germain S Ngota Ngota, whose health deteriorated while he was incarcerated in Cameroon, has died, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). The death certificate for Ngota, editor of the private bimonthly Cameroon Express, determined that the journalist died from a lack of medical attention in Kondengui prison in the capital, Yaoundé, according to editors Hilaire...