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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) the global organisation of journalists, representing over 500,000 journalists worldwide, has today condemned the brutal murder of an Oriya language newspaper editor in India. The horrific murder of 45-year-old Dilip Mohapatra, editor of Aji Kagaj, on Tuesday, 9 November, is believed to be the 100th murder of a journalist killed worldwide in 2004...

Asiya Jeelani died en route to the hospital after the van she was traveling in, which was being used by an elections monitoring team sent by a local umbrella organization, the Coalition of Civil Society, detonated an explosive device on a rural road in northern Kashmir. Jeelani was a freelance journalist who frequently contributed to local newspapers. According to local sources, she was helping...

Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières) has voiced deep concern at a report that a journalist kidnapped five months ago by Assam separatists has since been killed by his kidnappers. Indra Mohan Hakasam, correspondent for the daily Amar Assam published in Assam province in India's extreme northeast, was kidnapped in June by the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA). "If the murder...

In a letter to the Assam governor, retired lieutenant general Ajai Singh, the IFJ expressed great concern over the abduction and alleged death of journalist Indra Mohan Hakasam, a local correspondent from Goalpara, Assam, working for "Amar Asam", an Assamese daily published in the city of Guwahati. According to IFJ's information, Doleng Rava and Sanjib Rava, leaders of the United Liberation Force...

In a 22 September 2003 letter to Indian Prime Minister Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the IFJ expressed deep concern over the murder of Parmanand Goyal, a journalist and Kaithal Unit president of the Haryana Union of Journalists. It is the IFJ's understanding that at 7:00 a.m. (local time) on 18 September, Goyal, a reporter for "Punjab Kesari", was called outside his home by three unidentified persons...

Parmanand Goyal, a journalist with the daily Punjab Kesari, was shot and killed by three unidentified assailants at his home on September 18 in Kaithal, Haryana, north of the capital, Delhi, according to local press reports. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is investigating the motives behind his murder. According India's The Tribune newspaper, Goyal's son Naveen Rinku answered the door...

RSF has condemned the 31 January 2003 murder of Parvaz Mohammed Sultan, owner and editor-in-chief of the local news agency News and Feature Alliance (NAFA), in the summer capital, Srinagar. The organisation has called on the state's chief minister and the federal home affairs minister to quickly arrest and try those responsible for the murder. Sultan, aged 35, was shot dead at his home office in...

On 26 November 2002, RSF voiced its dismay over the death of publication director Ram Chander Chaterpatti on 23 November. The journalist died of injuries he sustained after being shot by a member of a religious sect one month ago in Sirsa (Haryana state). The organisation called on Haryana Chief Minister Om Parkash Chautala to ensure that all those involved in Chaterpatti's killing are identified...

On 13 October 2002, armed men shot dead television journalist Yambem Meghajit Singh in Imphal, in the north-eastern state of Manipur. The killing came a few days after two other journalists were kidnapped by a separatist group. "We urge you to see to it that police have the means to find those responsible and establish their motives," RSF Secretary-General Robert Ménard said in a letter to...

In a letter to Vishnu Kant Shastri, governor of the Indian State of Uttar Pradesh, RSF expressed indignation over the murder of Paritosh Pandey, a crime reporter for the Hindi-language local daily "Jansatta Express", in Lucknow (northern India). "If this crime goes unpunished, the entire profession will feel at risk. According to his family and colleagues, this cowardly assassination could be...