A Somali television journalist was shot dead in Mogadishu on Sunday by a man wearing the military uniform of the Transitional National Government (TNG). Reuters and other news outlets said that an unknown assailant armed with an AK-47 opened fire on Abdisalan Sheikh Hassan, known to colleagues as “Xiis”, shooting him several times in the […]

Prominent security expert and anti-corruption activist Alfredo Landaverde was gunned down last week in Tegucigalpa by assailants on a motorbike, just one day after a journalist, Luz Marina Paz, was murdered in a similar fashion. According to news reports, Mr. Landaverde and his wife, Hilda Caldera, were stopped at a traffic light on their way […]

Prominent security expert and anti-corruption activist Alfredo Landaverde was gunned down last week in Tegucigalpa by assailants on a motorbike, just one day after a journalist, Luz Marina Paz, was murdered in a similar fashion. According to news reports, Mr. Landaverde and his wife, Hilda Caldera, were stopped at a traffic light on their way […]

Influential journalist and human rights activist Hadzhimurad Kamalov was brutally gunned down in Russia on Thursday – a day dedicated to the commemoration of the assassination of journalists in the country. Kamalov was the founder of Chernovik, an independent local newspaper in Dagestan. The newspaper is well known for reporting on government corruption. He was […]