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Ninth journalist this year killed in Honduras

Honduran radio reporter Israel Zelaya Diaz was shot dead yesterday, becoming the ninth journalist killed in Honduras this year. According to the Associated Press, national police say gunmen kidnapped the veteran journalist in the northern city of San Pedro Sula on Tuesday. His body was found hours later in a sugar cane plantation near the […]

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Seasoned journalist killed in Somali capital

Sheikh Nur Mohamed Abkey, a journalist working with the Somali government-run radio station, Radio Mogadishu, was murdered by gunmen last night in Mogadishu, according to reports from local Somali press freedom advocates. Abkey was reportedly walking through Mogadishu’s Bakara market yesterday morning when he was abducted by hooded gunmen. According to an emailed statement from […]

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Somali radio station director killed while fixing transmitter on roof

Radio station director Barkhad Awale Adan was killed yesterday amidst fighting between Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government and Islamist insurgent group Al Shabab in Mogadishu, the National Union of Somali Journalists reported.Adan, 60, who ran the community station Hurma Radio, was fixing a transmitter on the roof of the station when he was hit by fire […]

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A month on, killers of Japanese cameraman in Thailand remain unidentified

Over a month after Reuters cameraman Hiro Muramoto was killed in clashes between anti-government protesters and security forces in Thailand’s capital, Bangkok, officials have yet to identify his killers. “There are many reasons why the government would choose to keep silent, even if they knew [who killed Hiro Muramoto],” the editor of Thailand’s Nation newspaper, Tulsathit Taptim, […]

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