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Alfrets Mirulewan, the editor of Pelangi Weekly, a newspaper published in the eastern Indonesian province of Maluku, has been killed. His body was found on a beach on December 17, three days after he disappeared while investigating illegal gasoline trading in the Maluku archipelago, according to Paris-based press freedom group Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). Many of his colleagues believe he was...

The death of Sun Hongjie, a senior reporter at the Northern Xinjiang Morning Post, must be fully investigated by regional authorities in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region and by central authorities in Beijing, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has demanded. Sun died in a hospital in Kuitun today, 10 days after being beaten by several men at a construction site, international news...

Henry Suazo, Tegucigalpa-based radio HRN’s correspondent in La Ceiba, in the north-coast department of Atlántida, was gunned down as he left his home Tuesday morning, Paris-based press freedom group Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) reported. His unidentified killers immediately left the scene. The motive is not yet known. Aged 39, Suazo also worked for Cablevisión del Atlántico, a local TV station...

A 35-year-old local journalist was shot dead by unidentified persons in the district in the wee hours Monday, police said. The incident occurred when Sushil Pathak, a journalist with Dainik Bhaskar, was returning home from work at around 0200 hours, they said. Pathak had parked his car in a nearby street and decided to walk down to his house when the assailants fired at him before fleeing, the...

Alfrets Mirulewan, chief editor of Pelangi Weekly in Maluku, was found dead with bruises on a large part of his body on Thursday evening, the Jakarta Globe reported. “The body was discovered by locals on the beach of Kisar Island. There were bruises and wounds on his body,” Insany Syahbarwaty, coordinator of the Maluku Media Center, was quoted as saying by news portal Detik.com. The details: [...

Pakistani journalist Muhammad Khan Sasoli was murdered Tuesday in Khuzdar, a town in the southwestern province of Balochistan that sees frequent clashes between government security forces and armed Balochi nationalists. The correspondent of Royal TV and the INP news agency and president of the town’s press club, he was gunned down outside his home, Paris-based press freedom group Reporters sans...

Journalist and presenter on the satellite TV channel al-Anbar Omar Rassim al-Qayssi died on Sunday of injuries he suffered in a booby-trap car bomb in al-Anbar city centre, Ramadi, 167 km east of Baghdad). Paris-based press freedom group Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) hopes that an investigation will be opened and those responsible will be brought to trial. The press freedom organisation said it...

Pakistani journalist Mehmood Chandio, president of the Mirpurkhas press club and bureau chief for the Sindhi-language television Awaz, was gunned down on Sunday, according to delayed reports received by the new York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Assailants knocked on the door of Chandio's home, firing two or three times when he answered, Mazhar Abbas, a former head of the Pakistan...

Two reporters were among over 40 people killed in a double suicide-bombing Monday at a meeting of tribal elders in a government building in Ghalanai, the main town in the northwestern Tribal Area of Mohmand. More than 40 people were killed by the two explosions in quick succession, which were claimed by the Taliban. Abdul Wahad of Express TV and Pervez Khan of Waqt TV were killed in the attacks...

The body of Pakistani journalist Abdul Hameed Hayatan, 25, was found on November 18 near the Sami river in Turbat, in Pakistan’s Balochistan province, according to media reports. Hayatan, who wrote for a number of print dailies, was abducted along with a friend on October 25, while on his way home from a wedding in the city of Gawadar. His friends and family reportedly believed that Pakistani...