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A news channel reporter was found murdered in Ratan Lal Nagar, under Govindnagar police station, in Kanpur on Sunday morning, the Times of India has reported. More from the report: [ Link] Identified as Brijesh Gupta, a resident of Babupurwa, his body was found inside his car outside a guest house. There were serious injury marks on the body which was wrapped in a bed-sheet. A revolver was also...

A case has been registered against Naraingarh MLA Ram Kishan Gujjar and two others for allegedly harassing a local journalist, who committed suicide late on Wednesday night, the Indian Express has reported. The Congress leader has been booked under Section 306 for abetment to suicide. The details: [ Link] The registration of the case was preceeded by a clash between the family members and...

Hernando Salas Rojas, director of the Curillo municipality's local television station, in Caquetá department, was murdered on May 20, delayed reports have said. According to sources consulted by Fundación para la Libertad de Prensa (FLIP) , unknown individuals burst into the journalist's home and fired several shots at him. Salas, who also previously worked in radio, was a community leader and the...

The police in Mindoro Occidental province should immediately investigate the shooting murder of Philippine radio commentator Crispin Perez for possible links to his reporting, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has demanded. An unidentified attacker stabbed and fatally shot Perez on Tuesday in San Jose in the central Philippines, according to local and international news reports. The...

A reporter for the Tele Diario news show of Guatemala’s Channel 3 television was gunned down in the eastern city of Chiquimula, police said on Sunday, the Latin American Herald Tribune website has reported. Marco Antonio Estrada was killed after parking his motorcycle on an avenue in Chiquimula, located some 222 km (nearly 140 miles) east of Guatemala City, the National Civilian Police, or PNC...

Two masked gunmen killed the director of one of Somalia's largest broadcasters on Sunday, raising to five the number of journalists killed in Somalia this year. The gunmen shot Radio Shabelle's director Moqtar Mohamed Hirab several times in the chest and head, said Feysal Ahmed, a businessman who saw the shooting occur just outside his shop in the capital, Mogadishu, the Associated Press (AP)...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has offered condolences to the family and colleagues of Philippine journalist Jojo Trajano, who was killed in crossfire on Wednesday during a police raid of an alleged organised crime den near Manila. A group suspected of drug dealing and theft opened fire on police during the raid at around 2.30 a.m. this morning in Taytay Town, Rizal Province, fatally...

Authorities found the body of a journalist who covered the police beat in northern Mexico Tuesday morning after he was abducted from his house on Monday night, according to Mexican news reports. Authorities found the body of Eliseo Barrón Hernández, left, a reporter and photographer for the Torreón-based daily La Opinión, in the city of Gómez Palacio, Durango, where he lived, reported the national...

Somalian radio reporter Nur Muse Hussein died Tuesday as a result of gunshot wounds suffered while covering fighting in April. Hussein, a veteran correspondent for Radio IQK, suffered two bullet wounds to his right leg while reporting on clashes between militia groups in the central town of Beledweyn on April 20, according to the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSJ). We offer our deep...

Radio Shabelle journalist Abdirisak Mohamed Warsame on Friday became the third Somali journalist to be killed in the line of duty this year. Warsame, 24, was shot in crossfire as government forces launched an assault against Islamist guerrilla fighters in Somalia's war-ravaged capital, Mogadishu. Warsame, a producer for the leading independent broadcaster Shabelle Media Network, was scheduled to...