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British photojournalist seriously wounded in Afghanistan returns to the UK

British photojournalist Giles Duley, who was seriously injured by a roadside bomb, on 7 February, while embedded with US and Afghan troops in Kandahar, Afghanistan, returned to England on 13 February for further medical treatment. The 39-year-old photojournalist, who specialized in humanitarian issues and cooperated with various charity organizations, had to undergo multiple amputations at […]

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Yemeni journalist shot dead at his home in northwest Yemen

Yemeni journalist Mohammed Shu’i al-Rabu’i was shot and killed on 13 February at his home in Beni Qais, in the northwest of the country. Al-Rabu’i, 34, had worked for the monthly newspaper Al Qaira, published by the main opposition party, the Islamic Reform Grouping (Islah), for more than 10 years and had written several articles […]

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Lebanese journalist killed in Lebanon-Israel border clashes

An employee of Lebanon’s Al-Akhbar newspaper confirmed to IPI that one of the newspaper’s journalists was killed in clashes between the Israeli and Lebanese armies which erupted Tuesday, shattering several years of relative calm on the tense Israel-Lebanon border. The Lebanese news site NOW Lebanon named the journalist as Assaf Abu Rahhal. Arab news reports […]

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Brazilian crime reporter killed in revenge for reporting on robbery

Crime reporter Francisco Gomes de Medeiros was killed on Monday 18 October when he was gunned down outside his home by an assailant on a motorcycle. Radio journalist and popular blogger Medeiros – who went by the pseudonym F. Gomes – was shot five times in the city of Caico, north-western Brazil at around 9.p.m […]

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