Two television journalists were found stabbed to death on Saturday, Feb. 11, in their home in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka. The motive of the killing is unknown and police have yet to determine whether it is related to their work. Police said authorities are investigating the killing of Sagar Sarwar and his wife, Mehrun […]

Malaysian authorities on Sunday forcibly repatriated a Saudi Arabian newspaper columnist who had fled Saudi Arabia after receiving death threats over Twitter posts deemed insulting to the Prophet Muhammad. Hamza Kashgari, 23, had been arrested on Thursday while attempting to pass through an immigration checkpoint at Kuala Lumpur International Airport.  Reports say he had been […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned alleged attempts by local officials to gag independent Lviv, Ukraine-based newspaper Express. The paper – reportedly the nation’s most widely-circulated Ukrainian language publication – accused a local governor of attempting to use commercial courts to close it and of later promising to relax pressure if the publication stopped […]

Outspoken and controversial political journalist Mário Randolfo Marques Lopes was kidnapped with his girlfriend, Maria Aparecida Guimarães, and ruthlessly executed yesterday at point blank range in Barra do Piraí, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Lopes and his girlfriend were seized Wednesday, reportedly by three men, who held the couple for 22 hours before taking them to […]