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Mexican journalist and his son assassinated in alleged robbery

Mexican columnist and reporter Angel Castillo Corona and his 16-year-old son were killed in the early hours of Sunday, 3 July, while driving home. Police informed Mexican newspapers that at around 3:30 am they were intercepted on the Mexico – Santiago – Chalma road, allegedly by carjackers. The journalist was brutally beaten, while his son […]

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Mexican journalist killed in Sinaloa

A Mexican journalist abducted by gunmen earlier this week in the western Mexican state of Sinaloa was found dead yesterday. Police found the body of Humberto Millán Salazar, the editor of online newspaper A Discusión and a morning news presenter on Radio Fórmula, in a farm building outside the state capital of Culiacán with a […]

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IPI commemorates International Women’s Day

The International Press Institute (IPI) today commemorated International Women’s Day by remembering eight female journalists who were murdered around the world in the past year and calling on authorities to bring their killers to justice. “The tragic deaths of eight of our female colleagues in Honduras, Mexico, Syria, Iraq, the Philippines and Bangladesh in the […]

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Journalist shot dead in Honduras

Honduran journalist Adán Benítez (42) was shot in the head on Monday, 4 July, after two individuals intercepted him and stole his belongings. The journalist and TV producer was killed while he was walking home in La Ceiba, Atléntida department, in the northern part of Honduras. Benítez worked for Radio Makintosh and La Ceiba´s 14 […]

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