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Russian federal authorities must undertake a thorough, independent, and transparent investigation into Sunday’s shocking death of Magomed Yevloyev, owner of the popular news website Ingushetiya, who was killed in the custody of police in Ingushetia, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has said. Yevloyev died from a gunshot wound to the head while being transported by Ingush police following...

Abdul Aziz Shaheen, a local journalist working for local dailies Azadi and Khabarkar in the troubled district of Swat in the NWFP province of Pakistan, was killed on August 29, in an attack by jet fighters on a Taliban hideout, where he was being held by the Taliban, Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) has eported. Shaheen had gone to the Peuchar area of Tehsil Matta of Swat to investigate who was...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has urged Indian authorities to protect journalists and lift restrictions on media workers in curfew-bound Jammu and Kashmir after a cameraman was killed and a near-total news blackout hit the main city of Srinagar. Srinagar newspapers did not reach the stands today for the fifth consecutive day and cable operators shut down international news broadcasts...

A member of the editorial board of the Lagos-based private daily newspaper Thisday was shot dead on Sunday in Dopemu, a suburb of Lagos, by yet-to-be identified gunmen, Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has reported. According to the Nigerian Police, while driving home Paul Abayomi Ogundeji was ambushed by armed robbers who had earlier stolen another car. The police allege that the bandits ordered him to...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has called for more police to investigate the killings of five journalists in the Philippines since the beginning of 2008, including the latest victim, former radio presenter Rolando Anjo Julia, in the central province of Camarines Sur. "Until the motives for these crimes have been discovered and their authors punished, people will continue to doubt the ability of...

A senior reporter of a national Hindi daily and his associate were brutally murdered in Bhopal on Tuesday, the Telegraph has reported. The bodies of Shahdeo Pandey (43) and his associate Mohammad Sabir were recovered after several hours of search Wednesday morning. Details from the report: It is believed they were throttled to death and their heads smashed with stones. They were heading towards...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has condemned the murder of Mohammad Azim Leghari of the newspaper Halchal and the Sindh-language television station Dharti TV, who was gunned down in Dadu City, in the southern province of Sindh, while covering story of a young couple trying to "marry for love." The couple was the target of fierce criticism from conservative clans, who could have been responsible...

Stan Storimans, a cameraman with Netherlands-based television channel RTL Nieuws, was killed Tuesday during bombing in the central Georgian city of Gori. His colleague, reporter Jeroen Akkermans, suffered shrapnel wounds to his leg and was hospitalised in a Tbilisi clinic, Jaspir Teijsse, a spokesman for RTL Nieuws, told the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Storimans was 39...

Two journalists were reported killed, at least eight were injured, and two have gone missing since fighting erupted between Georgian, Russian, and local forces in the disputed region of South Ossetia, according to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). No press-related casualties have been immediately reported in the conflict in another breakaway Georgian region, Abkhazia. The...

Filipino radio commentator Dennis Cuesta, who was shot at near his office on August 4, succumbed to his injuries at a General Santos City hospital on Saturday, New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported. Local press freedom groups told CPJ that they believe his murder was related to his work. Cuesta's colleague Mel Coronel told the Associated Press that the journalist never...