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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) on 26 May called on the government of Thailand to launch as a matter of urgency a full and transparent investigation into the killing and wounding of journalists during violent clashes between ‘Red Shirt’ protestors and the army in April and May of this year. The violence in Thailand claimed the lives […]