Latest News on Journalist Safety and Impunity

Journalist dies of bomb injuries in Pakistan; another reporter brutally beaten

Shafiullah Kahn, a trainee journalist with The News in Peshawar died on 17 June as a consequence of extensive burns caused by a series of blasts, on which the journalist was reporting. On 11 June, two smaller blasts, one at a restaurant near a market in Peshawar and the other in a building adjacent to it, drew […]

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Missing Pakistani journalist found dead

The bullet-ridden body of missing Pakistani journalist Javed Naseer Rind was found on Wednesday near Khuzdar, in the federal province of Balochistan, Pakistani media reported. Reportedly in his mid-twenties, Mr. Rind was a sub-editor and respected columnist at the Daily Tawar, a local Urdu-language paper. He was abducted on 10 September by unidentified men from […]

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Yemeni journalist succumbs to gunshot wounds

A journalist with the Arabic Media Agency died on 25 September, five days after he was hit in the face by sniper fire while covering protests in the Yemeni city of Sanaa, reports said. Hassan al-Wadhaf is the third journalist to be killed in Yemen this year, according to the IPI Death Watch. The others, […]

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IPI calls for full investigation into Rwandan journalist’s murder

The International Press Institute (IPI) has called for a full investigation into the murder of Charles Ingabire last week, which other Rwandan exiles have said was linked to the victim’s journalistic work, reports say. Ingabire, 32, was the editor of Inyenyeri News, an online opposition news site, news reports say. Ugandan police told the Human […]

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