Filipino police have filed murder charges against two local politicians and a police officer over the separate killings of two journalists last week, according to news reports. “Murder charges had been filed against them based on the strength of testimonies from several witnesses,” national police spokesman Leonardo Espina Espina was quoted as saying on Wednesday. […]

Last week’s threats against the chairman and editors of two Nepali newspapers over their coverage of the murder of media owner Jamim Shah on 7 February are a reminder that the media in Nepal are still in danger following the end of the ten-year-long civil war and in spite of commitments made over a year […]

A journalist with Indonesia’s SUN TV was killed on Saturday as he attempted to cover clashes between two warring villages in Tual  in Southeast Maluku, according to news reports. Ridwan Salamun, 28, was found dead during a fight between the villages of Banda Ely and Fiditan. He had suffered fatal injuries from a spear and […]

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 […]