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Jorge Ochoa Martínez, a Mexican editor and publisher in Guerrero state, died late Friday after being shot in the face, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has said quoting local press reports. Ochoa was killed in the town of Ayutla de los Libres after leaving a birthday party for a local politician, a friend and a coworker told New York-based CPJ. A spokesperson for Guerrero’s governor told...

Radio journalist José Luis Romero’s body was found on January 16 alongside the road from Los Mochis to El Fuerte, in the northwestern state of Sinaloa, just over two weeks after gunmen grabbed him while he was out shopping in Los Mochis on December 30 and bundled him into a pickup. Sinaloa state judicial officials said Romero, 40, journalist of Línea Directa, was tortured and then shot in the head...

Andis Hadjicostis, chief executive officer of Dias Media Group, was gunned down Monday in the Cypriot city of Nicosia, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported quoting Reuters and Agence France-Presse (AFP). Hadjicostis, 42, was shot dead at around 9 p.m. outside his home in Nicosia’s diplomatic neighbourhood of Engomi. Citing witnesses, Cypriot police told journalists Tuesdat that...

Togolese sports journalist Stanislas Ocloo was on Friday gunned down in the attack on Togo’s national soccer team’s bus in the northwestern Angolan enclave of Cabinda, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported. Also killed was assistant coach Hamelet Abulo, according to Angola's official ANGOP news agency. As many as three people were killed and nine injured in the strike, CNN...

Rupert Hamer, the London-based Sunday Mirror’s defence correspondent, was killed Saturday when the US military vehicle in which he was travelling was hit by a roadside bomb in southwestern Afghanistan. Photographer Philip Coburn was seriously injured in the blast. Hamer, a 39-year-old father of three, and Coburn, 43 were embedded with a US Marine Corps unit. A US marine and an Afghan soldier were...

Bulgarian prosecutors must thoroughly investigate Tuesday's murder in Sofia of Bobi Tsankov, author of a new book and a series of newspaper articles detailing the activities of reputed crime figures, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has said. Two gunmen opened fire on Tsankov, 30, and two other men on busy Aleksandur Stamboliiski Boulevard in downtown Sofia at around 12:30 p.m. Tsankov...

Canadian journalist Michelle Lang died Wednesday while embedded with Canadian troops in Afghanistan, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported. Lang was working for the Calgary Herald and Canwest News Service when she was killed along with four Canadian soldiers while travelling in a Canadian military convoy. Their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb about two miles...

José Alberto Velázquez López, owner of the Mexican newspaper Expresiones de Tulum in the southeastern state of Quintana Roo, died late Tuesday after being shot in his car by a gunman aboard a motorcycle, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported quoting local news reports. Mexican authorities must swiftly investigate this crime and bring those responsible to justice...

José Alberto Velásquez López, a journalist and lawyer based in Tulum, in the eastern Mexico state of Quintana Roo, died on the night of December 22 after being shot as he drove home, Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. The editor of the Diario Express de Tulum newspaper and a contributor to Canal 30, a local TV station, Velásquez left a wife who is about to give birth and a five-year-old...

Tuesday morning after falling from an upper-story window of an apartment building in Kazakhstan’s economic capital, Almaty, last week, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported. Pavlyuk, 40, described by colleagues as one of Kyrgyzstan’s most prominent journalists, had travelled to Almaty from Bishkek on business on Wednesday; the exact purpose of the trip remains...