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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 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...

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...

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...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has voiced deep concern at the killing of Honduran television anchor Jorge Alberto Orellana, the sixth journalist killed in the country since March. Orellana, 50, host of the programme “En vivo con Georgino” (Georgino Live) at the local private station Televisión de Honduras, was shot to death on Tuesday by an unidentified gunman in the city of San Pedro...

Another Pakistani journalist, Azamat Ali Bangash, a correspondent for Saama TV, has been killed in a suicide bombing, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) reported that Bangash was killed in an April 17 suicide bombing while covering food distribution in a refugee camp near Orakzai, in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas near...

One Pakistani journalist was killed and others were injured in a suicide bombing at a hospital in Quetta Friday, according to international news reports. Details are still emerging, and some of the injured are reported to be in critical condition, but Pakistani colleagues told the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) that a senior Samaa TV cameraman, Malik Arif, died in the attack. Five other...

Reuters cameraman Hiro Muramoto was fatally shot during armed exchanges between Thailand soldiers and antigovernment protestors on Saturday, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported. Muramoto, a Japanese national, was shot in the chest while filming an early-afternoon confrontation and was pronounced dead at a Bangkok hospital, according to local and international news reports...