Over a month after Reuters cameraman Hiro Muramoto was killed in clashes between anti-government protesters and security forces in Thailand’s capital, Bangkok, officials have yet to identify his killers. “There are many reasons why the government would choose to keep silent, even if they knew [who killed Hiro Muramoto],” the editor of Thailand’s Nation newspaper, Tulsathit Taptim, […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) on 26 May called on the government of Thailand to launch as a matter of urgency a full and transparent investigation into the killing and wounding of journalists during violent clashes between ‘Red Shirt’ protestors and the army in April and May of this year. The violence in Thailand claimed the lives […]

A freelance radio reporter was shot dead by unknown assailants in Mindanao in the southern Philippines on Wednesday, local media and Reuters reported. Edwin Segues, who freelanced for several radio stations, was reportedly on his way to work when he was approached by two men on a motorcycle, who shot him three times before driving […]

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. […]