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The Iraqi press has once again paid dearly for its commitment to more freedom — the head of the country's largest journalists organisation died on Wednesday, four days after being seriously wounded by gunmen who fired at his car in Baghdad. Jabbar Tarrad al-Shimmari, deputy head of the Iraqi Journalists Syndicate, told the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) that al-Tamimi, 74

Ninety-five journalists and other media workers were killed worldwide because of their professional activities in 2007, with Iraq and other conflict zones accounting for more than two-thirds of the deaths, the World Association of Newspapers said Thursday. Forty-four journalists and other media workers were killed in Iraq last year. Somalia was the second deadliest place for journalists, with...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called for an investigation into the death of private radio station director Abdou Mahaman, who was killed after his vehicle ran over a landmine Tuesday night in Niger’s capital Niamey. “We are shocked by this brutal killing and we are sending out condolences to his wife, his children and his colleagues,” said Gabriel Baglo, Director of the...

A journalist and a former journalist were killed in separate incidents on Mindanao island in December 2007, according to delayed reports received by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ). On December 24, Fernando Lintuan, a radio broadcaster for dxGO radio in Davao, was killed by gunmen while in his car after leaving work. About 10am, two men on a motorcycle opened fire on Lintuan at a...

A few hours after the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) disclosed as an "unlimited tragedy" the cases of journalists and media workers recorded in 2007, on the first day of 2008, Latin America mourned its first casualty. José Fernando González, 35, Director of the radio station Radio FM Mega 92.7, was murdered in the city of Santa Bárbara, Trinidad, 150 km northeast of Tegucigalpa...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned the pressure and attacks on media in the Gambia which have been on the rise despite a three-year international campaign for press freedom, journalist safety and justice in the killing of prominent journalist Deyda Hydara. “We are deeply upset that President Yahya Jammeh has learned nothing from the killing of Deyda,” said Gabriel...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has called on witnesses and those who have information on the killing of Norbert Zongo to step forward with evidence that could be used to reopen the case. Today is the 9th anniversary of the assassination of the journalist, who was killed along with three companions in Burkina Faso. Zongo, who was an investigative journalist and editor of the...

The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) and World Editors Forum (WEF) have renewed their call for a "thorough and impartial" investigation into the murder of journalist Norbert Zongo of Burkina Faso, who was killed nine years ago today, December 13. "We are seriously concerned that, after nine years, the failure to bring Zongo’s murderers to justice only increases the appearance of political...

On October 7, 2006, after a six-month trial, the three hired assassins who killed Marlene Garcia-Esperat, a Filipino newspaper columnist and radio commentator who probed government corruption, were sentenced to life imprisonment. Garcia-Esperat was gunned down in front of her children in the dining room of her home on March 24, 2005. She had received many threats and had requested police

An arm of the Russian prosecutor-general has decided to open a criminal probe into the mysterious July 2003 death of Yuri Shchekochikhin, deputy editor of the Moscow newspaper Novaya Gazeta. “We welcome this important if overdue step on behalf of Russian prosecutors to uncover the truth about the death of our colleague Yuri Shchekochikhin,” Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) Executive