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Third journalist killed in Honduras this month

A TV news editor has been killed in Honduras, just days after a radio reporter was killed and only two weeks after the murder of a TV presenter. Nahúm Palacios Arteaga, 36, the news director for television channel Canal 5 in Aguán and host of a news programme on Radio Tocoa, was shot dead on […]

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Second Honduran journalist killed in two weeks

A radio reporter has been killed in Honduras, less than two weeks since an attack on two other journalists, which left one dead and another injured. David Meza Montesinos, a reporter at radio station El Patio for more than 30 years, was killed on 11 March while driving home in the Honduran coastal city of […]

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Broadcasters’ offices stormed in Yemen

Yemeni authorities seized broadcasting equipment from the offices of two pan-Arab broadcasters on Thursday 11 March over accusations of exaggerated news coverage of the protest movement in southern Yemen. According to the Yemeni national news agency, Saba, an official source in the Ministry of Information claims the satellite broadcasting equipment of Al Jazeera and Al […]

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Following reports of further attacks on journalists, IPI sends open letter to Ghana president

The International Press Institute (IPI) today wrote an open letter to Ghanaian President Atta Mills, calling on him to ensure that attacks on journalists in the West African country are promptly investigated, and that the perpetrators are brought to justice. In recent weeks, a number of incidents of violence against journalists – often allegedly at […]

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