Crime reporter Francisco Gomes de Medeiros was killed on Monday 18 October when he was gunned down outside his home by an assailant on a motorcycle. Radio journalist and popular blogger Medeiros – who went by the pseudonym F. Gomes – was shot five times in the city of Caico, north-western Brazil at around 9.p.m […]

Prominent Syrian journalist Mazen Darwish, president of the Syrian Center for Media Freedom, spoke to the International Press Institute (IPI) last week on the current situation in Syria, where he says an international “proxy war” is putting political interests above the safety of civilians. The war in Syria has taken its toll on Darwish himself. […]

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 […]

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 […]