Latest News on Journalist Safety and Impunity

Prominent Honduran security expert murdered

Prominent security expert and anti-corruption activist Alfredo Landaverde was gunned down last week in Tegucigalpa by assailants on a motorbike, just one day after a journalist, Luz Marina Paz, was murdered in a similar fashion. According to news reports, Mr. Landaverde and his wife, Hilda Caldera, were stopped at a traffic light on their way […]

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Prominent Honduran security expert murdered

Prominent security expert and anti-corruption activist Alfredo Landaverde was gunned down last week in Tegucigalpa by assailants on a motorbike, just one day after a journalist, Luz Marina Paz, was murdered in a similar fashion. According to news reports, Mr. Landaverde and his wife, Hilda Caldera, were stopped at a traffic light on their way […]

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Journalist gunned down in Russia

Influential journalist and human rights activist Hadzhimurad Kamalov was brutally gunned down in Russia on Thursday – a day dedicated to the commemoration of the assassination of journalists in the country. Kamalov was the founder of Chernovik, an independent local newspaper in Dagestan. The newspaper is well known for reporting on government corruption. He was […]

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Press freedom violations cast dark shadow over Egyptian elections

Little more than two weeks after the start of the first free elections to take place in Egypt in decades, threats to press freedom, including the censoring of a major new English-language newspaper, have mounted. The second edition of the Egypt Independent – planned for 1 December – never made it to press after objections […]

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