The editor-in-chief of western Turkish newspaper Güney Marmara’da Yaşam (Life in Southern Marmara) was ambushed and shot while leaving his office on Friday afternoon. Cihan Hayırsevener, 53, succumbed to his injuries later that evening in the Uludağ University Medical Faculty hospital in Bursa, according to news reports. A funeral service was held for Hayirsevener on […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) condemns the murder on Tuesday of Dagestan-based newspaper editor Malik Akhmedilov, who was found dead in his car near the republic’s capital Makhachkala with bullet wounds to the stomach. Akhmedilov’s killing starkly underscores Russia’s worrying reputation as one of the most dangerous countries in the world for reporters.  According to […]

Police found the mutilated body of a local journalist outside the village of Wahipandhi in Sindh, Pakistan today. The body of Ghulam Rasool Birhamani, a journalist with local daily Sindh, was found in a field near the village. According to the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), Birhamani had been kidnapped from the village two […]

The body of Pakistani journalist Abdul Hameed Hayatan, 25, was found on 18 November near the Sami river in Turbat, in Pakistan’s Balochistan province, according to media reports. Hayatan, who wrote for a number of print dailies, was abducted along with a friend on 25 October, while on his way home from a wedding in […]