Follow-up

Hiram Oliveros Ortiz, an alleged participant in the assassination of La Mañana newspaper director Roberto Javier Mora García, was on June 3 sentenced to 16 years in prison by Judge José Alberto Ciprés Sánchez of the Second Bench Criminal Court in Nuevo Loredo, Tamaulipas state, northern Mexico, the Center for Journalism and Public Ethics (CEPET) has reported. Oliveros Ortiz, who is being held at...

Attempts to unravel the murder of journalist Francis Nyaruri have run into problems after key witnesses began receiving death threats. The family lawyer, Andrew Mandi (who practises in the Nyamira District of Kenya's Nyanza Province) and Robert Natwoli (a police officer in Nyamira) have gone into hiding after they were threatened with death, the Nairobi-based Media Institute has reported. The...

Afghan authorities failed to properly investigate the murder of Abdul Samad Rohani, the BBC World Service’s correspondent in the southern province of Helmand, whose body was found one year ago. His family and colleagues are still pressing for the truth about his death, especially for the identity of those who ordered it. “We will not give up demanding justice for journalists murdered in

Ibrahim Mohamed Ali, the director of somalia's privately-owned Universal TV has been released by his captors. Four armed and hooded men abducted the journalist five days earlier on the road between Afgoye and Mogadishu. The Djibouti-based independent Somali news agency SOMINA reported that that Ali, also known as “Jeckey,” was abducted by four masked gunmen who stopped his car as he was returning...

Radio journalist Zakia Zaki's murder two years ago is still unpunished and her husband is sure that the lack of progress with the investigation is almost certainly due to the influence of the murder's masterminds. The director of Sada-e-Solh (Peace Radio), Zaki was gunned down in her home in Jabalussaraj, in the northern province of Parwan, on June 6, 2007. "We have not forgotten Zaki, who was an

Three more suspects have been arrested for the October 2008 murders of Ivo Pukanic, owner and editorial director of the Zagreb-based political weekly Nacional, and Niko Franjic, the publication's marketing director. Three other suspects had been arrested in November 2008. Pukanic and Franjic were killed on October 23, 2008, when a bomb exploded under the editor's car, which was parked outside the...

The death of Gen Edvard Fere, a potential key witness in the investigation into the disappearance and murder of online journalist Georgy Gongadze in 2000, has dealt a blow to the case. Fere died on Monday in hospital after six years in a coma without ever being questioned by the police. Gen Fere, who fell into a coma after suffering a heart attack in 2003, acted as chief of staff for President...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has welcomed the decision of the Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to withdraw legal action against a website after an IFJ call for restraint by Iraq's political leaders in their dealings with media. At a historic meeting of journalists' leaders from 30 countries in Baghdad ten days ago IFJ had called for more professionalism from Iraqi media...

It has been four years since the murder of Lebanese journalist Samir Kassir, but those behind the crime are still at large. Kassir, a prominent columnist for the daily Al-Nahar and an influential democracy advocate, was killed outside his home in East Beirut by a bomb placed in his car on June 2, 2005. His assassination occurred nearly six months before the murder, under similar circumstances, of

A Baku court has rejected a request for the release of Mushfig Huseynov, a reporter with the daily Bizim Yol, who has had serious health problems since he was jailed in January 2008 for allegedly taking a bribe. “Huseynov’s state of health is grounds for immediate release,” Paris-based Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) said. “The law requires it. Prison conditions in Azerbaijan are appalling and do...