Four Italian journalists who were kidnapped on Wednesday and whose driver was killed are now being held by pro-Qaddafi militants in Tripoli, according to news reports. The Italian journalists were abducted just after thirty-five journalists who had been trapped in the Rixos hotel for days were finally freed. Unknown men stopped their vehicle near Zawiya, […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned raids by police in Istanbul on the offices of Aydinlik newspaper and the Ulusal Kanal television station and the detention of five journalists. The journalists were taken into custody following raids on Thursday reportedly made in connection with the ongoing probe of the alleged “Ergenekon” plot by secular […]

There has been a worrying spike in violence against journalists in Pakistan, specifically in the restive provinces of Swat and Baluchistan. On Sunday, 14 August, Muneer Shakir, a correspondent for Waqt News was gunned down on his way home, in the town of Khuzdar in Baluchistan. He died in hospital. Although Shakir had not reported […]

Radio show host Niel Jimena, 42, was killed on Negros Island yesterday in a motorcycle chase by two gunmen, AFP and local news reports said. He was reportedly slain near his home in E.B. Magalona town after a car chase. Jimena had hosted a twice-weekly radio show called “Judge” on DYRI-RMN, on which he frequently […]