State Impunity

The editor of a weekly in the southern state of Oaxaca in Mexico has gone into hiding after a shootout at his residence, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. The police and judicial authorities investigating a the attack on the home of Guillermo Soto Bejarano, the De Opinión’s editor, on August 30 in Salina Cruz should work on the assumption that it was linked to his journalist activities...

The Russian supreme court Thursday ordered that the case against three alleged accomplices to journalist Anna Politkovskaya’s murder should be returned to the prosecutor’s office for further investigation, overturning a lower court ruling on August 7 blocking this possibility. A representative of the prosecutor general said the investigation into the accomplices would be combined with the...

Anibal Dos Santos Junior, also known as Anibalzinho, the fugitive killer of investigative journalist Carlos Cardoso, has been recaptured in South Africa. Mozambican police travelled Thursday to Pretoria to bring Dos Santos back to finish serving a 30-year sentence for Cardoso’s November 2000 murder. Dos Santos has escaped three times since he was first arrested for Cardoso’s murder. His most...

Masked assailants on Monday stormed a radio station and a television outlet critical of the country's interim government, forcing the broadcasters off the air in the latest attack on the Honduran media, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported. At 8 p.m., eight individuals wearing ski masks forced their way into the Tegucigalpa offices shared by Radio Globo and Canal 36, local press...

Two foreign freelance journalists have complete a year in captivity in Somalia. Canadian reporter Amanda Lindhout and Australian photographer Nigel Brennan were taken hostage by an armed group as they were returning to Mogadishu from Afgoye refugee camp, 20 km west of the Somali capital, on August 23, 2008. At the time of their abduction, Lindhout and Brennan were being accompanied by Abdifatah

Gunmen shot dead an Afghan television journalist and severely wounded his colleague Monday in northwestern Pakistan. Janullah Hashim Zada was gunned down as he travelled on a public minibus from Torkham on the Afghan border to the main northwestern city of Peshawar, a Khyber Agency official told the Associated Press. Zada's colleague, Ali Khan, was seriously hurt with a gunshot wound to the neck...

Scores of Iraqi journalists and political figures rallied Friday to protest what they say is a political effort to censor media that follows steps to crack down on Internet sites, the Associated Press (AP) reported. The demonstration on a Baghdad street known for its book market was held under tight security, as anger builds over government initiatives that critics say are aimed at preventing a...

Miscreants shot dead TV journalist Siddique Bacha Khan in the city of Mardan in Pakistan's restive North West Frontier Province on Friday, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported. Unidentified gunmen ambushed Bacha Khan, news correspondent for the independent Aaj TV channel, and shot him at close range before fleeing the scene, the channel reported on its website. The journalist...

A journalist known for his critical commentary has been killed in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Dagestan. Abdulmalik Akhmedilov, 32, was shot in his car at around 1 p.m. local time Tuesday on the outskirts of Dagestan's capital, Makhachkala, the independent Caucasus news website Kavkazsky Uzel reported. The Dagestan Investigative Committee, the region's investigative office, has opened a...

Three suspects in the murder of journalist and Kremlin critic Anna Politkovskaya went on trial for a second time in Moscow Wednesday, according to news reports. No one has been sentenced for the October 2006 killing of Politkovskaya, who published scathing exposes of official corruption and rights abuses. The three alleged accomplices, the only people so far charged in connection with the murder...