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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Monday called on Russian, Georgian and any other combat forces involved in the conflict in the region to respect the rights of media workers and protect their safety after it received reports that two journalists were killed and at least two others wounded in South Ossetia. Georgian Alexander Klimchuk, a photojournalist working for Russian news...

Unidentified individuals shot and killed Dominican journalist Normando García Thursday evening in the city of Santiago, 102 miles (163 km) north of the capital, Santo Domingo. The Nw York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is investigating whether García's murder is linked to his journalistic work. At around 6:40 p.m., García, a cameraman for the daily news program "Detrás de la Noticia"...

Filipino radio broadcaster Martin Roxas was shot dead on August 7 by a gunman riding pillion on a motorcycle in Roxas City, according to the Centre for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR). The province is approximately 411 km southeast of Manila. Roxas, programme director of dyKR-Radio Mindanao Network (RMN) in Roxas City, was shot in the neck. Roxas was himself on a motorcycle. He was...

An Iranian newspaper journalist has been executed for allegedly associating with a militant group and threatening national security, officials in Iran said Tuesday, according to a report in the Guardian. Yaghoob Mirnehad, a reporter for the Tehran-based Mardomsalari newspaper, was executed along with another man on Monday, a spokesman for the judiciary said. Some background: Mirnehad, who was...

A reporter for a local Thai-language daily and a television station was shot dead inside his home on August 1 in Nakorn Sri Thammarat province, according to the hai Journalists Association (TJA). Police identified the victim as Athiwat Chaiyanurat, a reporter for Matichon newspaper and stringer for the army-owned Channel 7 television station. TJA condemned the killing of Athiwat as a reckless and...

A journalist of a local daily was shot dead on Friday in Madhya Pradesh's Rewa town, the police said, according to a report in Hindustan Times. Deepak Mishra, who was working as the chief of bureau of a leading Hindi daily Dainik Bhaskar, which is published from Jabalpur, was going in a car with some unidentified people when gunshots were heard near Rewa bus stop. "It appears that Mishra had some...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has condemned condemns the murder of reporter Soran Mama Hama of the fortnightly magazine Leven, who was gunned down on July 21 outside his home in Kirkuk, in the northern region of Kurdistan. His colleagues said he had received threats about articles he had written on sensitive subjects. "We call on the Kurdistan authorities to carry out a thorough investigation...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on the Philippine government to fully investigate the shooting death of Robert "Bert" Sison Tuesday in Sariaya town, about 60 miles (97 km) southeast of Manila. Sison reported for the weekly Regional Bulletin, which has published articles on crime and stories critical of local officials. Sison, 60, was shot in his car by two unidentified gunmen...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has expressed shock at the wave of violence in the northern state of Chihuahua that has cost the life of Candelario Pérez Pérez, a 32-year-old journalist who worked as an editor on his father's crime magazine, Sucesos. Pérez was gunned down in the border town of Ciudad Juárez on June 23. The motive for the murder is not yet known. "So far there is no evidence of a...

Radio Sucre deputy news director Raúl Rodríguez was gunned down in in the western Ecuadorian city of Guayaquil, according to Paris-based Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). The attack took place at about 7:20 a.m. (local time) as Rodríguez returned to his home in the northern district of Guayacanes after hosting his early morning programme "Good Morning Ecuador" on Radio Sucre. He was getting out of...