Several journalists covering relatives and supporters of a local politician who was about to file his gubernatorial candidacy on the Philippines island of Mindanao Monday were believed to be among those killed by a gang of armed men in Maguindanao province, according to international news reports. News reports said 21 people were killed after being abducted, including journalists, lawyers, and...
A Mexican reporter who had recently covered corruption and organized crime was reported missing this week in the western state of Michoacán, The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported quoting local news reports. María Esther Aguilar Cansimbe, was last seen on November 11 near her home in Zamora. CPJ called on state and federal authorities to do everything in their power...
On the eve of the first anniversary of Radio Okapi journalist Didace Namujimbo’s murder in Bukavu, the capital of the eastern province of Sud-Kivu, Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) and Journalist in Danger (JED) have condemned the lack of action on the part of the military officers in charge of the investigation. Namujimbo was killed by a single shot to the head as he was returning home at around 9...
Two Somali correspondents for international media outlets were injured in separate shootings, one in the northeast semi-autonomous region of Puntland, and the other in the capital, Mogadishu, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported quoting local journalists and news reports. In the Puntland city of Galkayo, northeast of Mogadishu, a police officer fired on the car of...
Crime reporter Bladimir Antuna García was found murdered Monday night, according local news reports, after reportedly being abducted from a street in the Mexican city of Durango that morning. The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) called on Mexican authorities to show their commitment to press freedom and the protection of Mexican journalists by immediately bringing all those...
Police in Kyrgyzstan should investigate work-related motives in a weekend assault that left Kubanychbek Zholdoshev, a reporter with the government weekly Osh Shamy, with a concussion and broken ribs, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said Tuesday. Three assailants beat Zholdoshev as he was returning home from dinner in the southern city of Osh on Sunday night, the...
Colombian journalist Claudia Julieta Duque, who is under an interior ministry protection programme for journalists, is being harassed and intimidated by the intelligence services, who obtained information about her from her alleged protectors, according to Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). Duque, of Radio Nizkor, is about to present a file to the authorities exposing the persecution she has...
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Kyrgyz authorities to make public the findings of their investigation into the murder of Alisher Saipov, the editor of the Uzbek-language newspaper Siyosat, who was shot in Osh two years ago. Continued impunity in the killing, which occurred in early evening in the city’s downtown district, has fostered fear among his colleagues and...
A TV crew from the Moscow-based independent broadcaster REN-TV was recently attacked and threatened in the North Caucasian republic of Ingushetia that caused them to flee the region, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported. REN-TV journalist Leonid Kanfer and cameraman Victor Muzalevsky were threatened and their driver was beaten on Wednesday, the Moscow-based...
Essential issues were again left unaddressed at the 11th hearing on October 12 in the trial of the newspaper editor Hrant Dink’s alleged killers before an Istanbul court. A Turkish journalist of Armenian origin, Dink was gunned down outside his newspaper in Istanbul on January 19, 2007. “In hearing after hearing, the same fundamental questions remain, including the existence of a political will at...
