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Jean Richard Louis-Charles, a 30-year-old journalist working for Radio Kiskeya, one of Port-au-Prince’s most popular radio stations, was fatally shot twice in the head Wednesday near the capital’s central Champs-de-Mars square, Paris-based press freedom group Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. Another man at the scene, named as Jean Wilner Duperval, was shot dead on the spot by a plain...

The International Federation of Journalists today mourned the loss of the first journalist to die in the social unrest in Egypt. Journalist Ahmed Mohammed Mahmoud died in hospital in Cairo from injuries suffered after he was shot in the eye by a sniper on Monday last week. The journalist, aged 39, worked for the A’wada newspaper, a part of the Al Ahram media group. His death comes after a week of...

Le Hoang Hung an investigative reporter for the newspaper Nguoi Lao Dong (Workers) died in hospital on January 29 from the injuries he received when an intruder sprayed him with chemicals and set fire to him while he was asleep in his home in Tan An, a town near Ho Chi Minh City in southern Vietnam, on January 20, according to Paris-based press freedom group Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). “We...

A senior journalist of a daily and his wife were murdered as the police recovered the bodies from their Purana Paltan residence in capital Dhaka on Friday, according to Financial Express newspaper. The victims were identified as Forhad Khan (60) and his wife Rahima Khatun (50). Forhad was the joint news editor of Dainik Janata and also the president of Bangladesh Writers' (Lekhok) Association...

A local radio presenter with a reputation for outspokenness was shot in the head and killed January 24 on the island of Palawan in the west of the Philippines. Gerardo Ortega hosted a daily programme "Ramatak", on the station Radio Mindanao Network (RMN) dwAR. A man, identified as Marvin Alcaraz and said to be resident in Manila, is reported to have been arrested at the scene of the crime carrying...

In a second such incident in Chhattisgarh, a journalist was shot dead by two masked gunmen in Raipur district, police said on Monday. Umesh Rajput, a reporter with Hindi daily Nai Duniya, was shot on Sunday night by the assailants outside his residence in Chura village, they said. The masked duo, then, fled on a motorcycle from the spot. Rajput was taken to a hospital by his family members and a...

Lucas Mebrouk Dolega, a young French photographer working for the European Press Photo Agency (EPA), has died in Tunis’ Rabta hospital from the head injury he suffered when the police are said to have deliberately fired a tear gas grenade at him on January 14. “Our thoughts are with his family, his partner, and his friends,” Paris-based press freedom group Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) said....

Geo TV reporter Wali Khan Babar was shot and killed in Karachi Thursday evening, shortly after covering gang violence in the city, according to several Pakistani journalists. At least two assailants intercepted Babar's car at 9:20 p.m., shooting him multiple times in the head and neck, Geo TV Managing Director Azhar Abbas told New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). One assailant...

The Committee to Protect Journalists CPJ) has called for a full investigation into the killing of Ilyas Nizzar, who was found dead in Pidarak, in the volatile Balochistan province, in Pakistan's southwest, on January 5. Nizzar, a general assignment reporter with the Baloch-language magazine Darwanth, had been missing and assumed abducted since December 28. According to the Pakistan Federal Union...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has warned that the assassination of Salmaan Taseer, governor of the Punjab province in Pakistan, may open the door to a new wave of political intolerance and pressure on journalists across the country. "Salman Taseer was a friend of democracy and media freedom," said Aidan White, General Secretary of the IFJ. "His death is a brutal reminder that...