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Two indigenous women radio presenters have been shot dead in Mexico. On April 7, Teresa Bautista Flores and Felicitas Martínez, working for La Voz que Rompe el Silencio (“The Voice that Breaks the Silence”), a community radio station serving the Trique indigenous community, were shot in Putla de Guerrero, in the southern state of Oaxaca. The two young women were returning from doing a report in...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned the killing of a Panamanian television cameraman and photographer who was stabbed while covering a gang fight in Panama City. Eliécer Santamaría died in the early morning hours on Tuesday after he was stabbed while on assignment covering a story about gangs exchanging gunfire in the capital, according to reports. "This killing...

A gunman on a motorcycle shot dead a Philippine newspaper columnist in Manila on Monday night, the first journalist killed this year in the Southeast Asian nation, Reuters reported quoting police sources on Tuesday. Benefredo Acabal was walking close to a friend's house on Monday night when a man on a motorcycle shot him five times in the head and the body, police officer Lardy Ignacio said. The...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned the killing of Carlos Quispe, a journalist working for Radio Municipal in the city of Pucarani, about 40 km west of La Paz, Bolivia, and called for the government to act quickly to find those responsible. A group that opposes the mayor attacked the city’s municipal building on March 27. The mob then moved onto the municipal radio...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is saddened and angered at news of the brutal death of Asomiya Pratidin correspondent and Morajhar Press Club president Md Muslimuddin on April 1. According to the Indian Journalists’ Union (IJU), an IFJ affiliate, Muslimuddin was attacked about 10pm while returning home on a bicycle near in Jagirod in India’s north-eastern state of Assam. An...

A reporter was shot dead by his sister-in-law's brother at Panki area in the district, the Kanpur police has said, according to a Press Trust of India (PTI) report. Vinay, who was a reporter with a Delhi-based news organisation, had come to Allahabad to meet his brother and sister-in-law on Holi, SSP Anand Swaroop said. The trio, then went to Priya's brother's place, Ajay, at Panki where Vinay and...

Argentine television journalist Juan Carlos Zambrano was shot to death Wednesday morning in the northern province of Jujuy. Two unidentified men approached Zambrano, host of the daily news and the weekly opinion programme “Con la Gente” (With the People) on local television station Canal 7, outside his home in the provincial capital of San Salvador de Jujuy around 2:30am, according to reports in...

Two journalists who covered the volatile North Caucasus have been murdered in Russia in the last 24 hours, the first such killings in nearly a year. The motives are still unclear. Firefighters found the body of Ilyas Shurpayev, a correspondent for Russian state television’s Channel One, in his Moscow apartment early Friday morning. He had been strangled and stabbed. The perpetrators had apparently...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has condemned the murder of an Iraqi journalist by at least one unknown gunman in Baghdad on Thursday last. Qassim Abdul Hussein al-Iqabi, 36, of the local daily Al-Muwatin (The Citizen) was shot dead in Baghdad’s predominantly Shiite Karradah neighbourhood, according to local and international news reports. “We offer our deepest condolences to Qassim...

A correspondent of an English-language newspaper was one of the at least 40 people who were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up at the funeral of a slain police officer on February 29 in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province, according to Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). The journalist was identified as Siraj Uddin. No organisation has claimed responsibility for the attack on the...