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Mexican radio reporter Marco Aurelio Martínez Tijerina was abducted on Friday by unidentified gunmen and found shot to death the next day in the city of Montemorelos, state of Nuevo León, according to local news reports. Martínez, 45, a reporter for the Montemorelos-based radio station XEDD La Tremenda, was picked up on Friday evening by unidentified assailants, according to the reports. Gunmen in...

The body of Hemchandra Pandey, a freelance journalist killed along with Maoist leader Cherukuri Rajkumar alias Azad in an alleged gunfight with police, was late Tuesday brought to New Delhi, the Indo-Asian News Service (IANS) has reported. His body was brought to the capital by his wife Babita, his brother and a few human rights activists from Andhra Pradesh. Babita, who says that her husband was...

Another Mexican journalist, Hugo Alfredo Olivera, was found dead on Tuesday in Michoacán state, according to news reports and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Unidentified assailants shot Olivera three times with a 32 mm gun and left his body inside the reporter’s truck in a rural area near the city of Apatzingán, a spokesman at the state prosecutor’s office told CPJ. Olivera’s body was...

Husband-and-wife journalists Juan Francisco Rodríguez Ríos and María Elvira Hernández Galena were gunned down Monday in the Internet café they owned near their home in Coyuca de Benítez, in the southwestern Mexican state of Guerrero. Their deaths bring the number of journalists murdered since the start of the year in Mexico to seven. Rodríguez was the local correspondent for two dailies, El Sol de...

Faiz Muhammad Sasoli, a reporter based in Khuzdar District, in the southwestern province of Balochistan, was killed in hail of submachine-gunfire Sunday, according to Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). Sasoli, who worked for the Aaj Kal daily newspaper and the Independent News of Pakistan agency, had escaped two previous murder attempts. His death brings to six the number of media workers killed...

A top editor of an independent Rwandan newspaper that was recently banned by the government was assassinated in front of his home late Thursday. An assailant shot Jean-Léonard Rugambage, acting editor of Umuvugizi as he drove through the gate of his home in the capital, Kigali, around 10 p.m., Rwanda National police spokesperson Eric Kayiranga told the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). “At...

Newspaper reporter Nestor Bedolido was shot and killed by an unidentified gunmen on Saturday evening in Digos City, Davao del Sur province, in the southern Philippines, according to local and international news reports. He is the third journalist to be murdered over the past week in the Philippines, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said. Bedolido, 50, a reporter with The Kastigador...

Philippine radio commentator Joselito Agustin was fatally shot by two motorcycle riding assailants while heading home from work late Tuesday evening near Baccara town in the northern Philippines, according to local and international news reports. The murder occurred just one day after the murder of radio journalist Desidario Camangyan in southern Mindanao. Agustin died from four gunshot wounds on...

An unidentified attacker gunned down TV journalist Luis Arturo Mondragón late Monday night in the city of El Paraíso, eastern Honduras, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Mondragón, 53, owner and news director for the cable television station Channel 19, was shot to death as he left work at around 10 p.m. in El Paraíso, near the border with Nicaragua. A police spokesman...

A gunman shot broadcast journalist Desidario Camangyan from behind at close range while he was on stage hosting an amateur singing contest in Manay town, Davao Oriental province, on the southern island of Mindanao, Monday, according to Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Camangyan died at the scene from a single shot to the head in front of the contest’s audience, which included his wife and 6...