A search team in West Papua, Indonesia, found the body of local reporter Ardiansyah Matra’is, in a river on Friday, two days after the journalist had been reported missing. Matra’is was found naked and handcuffed, according to Radio New Zealand International. Matra’is, a reporter for local broadcaster Merauke TV, had received several text messages over […]

Two masked gunmen shot and killed Umesh Rajput, reporter with Hindi daily Nai Duniya, outside his home near Raipur, in Chhattisgarh, Sunday night. Although rushed to a nearby hospital, he was declared dead upon arrival. The two assailants fled the scene on a motorcycle. A note written in red ink was found near the crime […]

Just over a month ago, twenty-three year-old journalist Zardasht Othman was kidnapped and brutally murdered in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. His killers remain free. On 25 May, IPI published an open letter signed by eighteen foreign correspondents with long experience of covering Iraqi Kurdistan, who called on the president of the autonomous region, Massoud […]

Gunmen on Wednesday killed an Iraqi TV journalist – the second to be slain in two days – according to news reports. Al-Mosuliyah satellite television reporter Sabah al-Khayat was shot dead while leaving for work in the northern city of Mosul. On Tuesday, well-known al-Iraqiya television anchor and reporter Riyad al-Saray was killed by unknown […]