Cihan Hayırsevener, editor of the local daily Güney Marmara’da Yaşam, was shot three times in the leg on December 19 while walking to his office in Bandirma, a town 60 miles (100 km) northeast of Istanbul, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported quoting local news reports. One bullet hit a major artery in his left leg, causing intensive bleeding. He was taken by...
Mortar shells destroyed the Radio Voice of Democracy building Monday morning in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, killing Amal Abukar, 22, the wife of the director of the station, Abdirahman Yasin, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported. Abukar died instantly after three mortar shells landed on the station’s building in northern Mogadishu at 10:30 a.m., local...
An unidentified gunman shot and killed Colombian journalist Hárold Humberto Rivas Quevedo in the western Valle del Cauca province on the night of December 15, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported. CPJ Thursday called on Colombian authorities to investigate the killing and do everything in their power to bring all those responsible to justice. Rivas, 49, host of...
Radio station owner and presenter José Givonaldo Vieira was shot dead at the door of his Brazilian offices in an act that bore the hallmarks of an execution, Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. Two assailants fired five shots from a car at the proprietor of Radio Bezerros who also presented a programme, in Bezerros about 100 km from Recife in the north-east on December 14. He was hit...
Unidentified assailants shot and killed Brazilian media owner and radio host José Givonaldo Vieira on Monday morning in northeastern Pernambuco state, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported quoting local news reports. CPJ called on Brazilian authorities to conduct a thorough investigation into Vieira’s killing and to promptly bring to justice all those responsible...
Prominent Russian journalist Olga Kotovskaya was killed after she apparently fell from the 14th floor of a building in the centre of Kaliningrad (the capital of a Russian enclave between Poland and Lithuania) six days after a court ruled that she had been unfairly stripped of the TV station she had created, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. Kotovskaya died on November 16, six days...
The toll of journalists killed in Thursday'ss suicide bombing in Mogadishu’s Shamo Hotel has risen to three. According to the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ), a Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) partner organisation, freelance fixer and cameraman Abdigafar Abdulkadir Hassan, aka Yaasir Mario died Thursday evening in the Medina Hospital, to which he had been taken in a critical condition...
Three journalists were among the victims of a suicide bombing at a Benadir University graduation ceremony in Mogadishu Thursday. Twenty-two people were killed at Hotel Shamo, including three government ministers, by suspected Islamic insurgents, according to the Associated Press (AP). Hassan Zubeyr, a cameraman for the Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya television network and Radio Shabelle reporter Mohamed...
The body of José Galindo Robles, the head of Radio Universidad de Guadalajara, was discovered at his home in Guadalajara, in the western state of Jalisco, on November 24, after it was noticed that several days had gone by with no word from him, Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. His body was found wrapped in a blanket and with the hands tied with cable. The prosecutor’s office said the...
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...
