UPDATE 4 April 2011: Reuters reporters Suleiman Al-Khalidi and Khaled al-Hariri have been freed in Syria, the news agency reported. In another update, in Libya, one of four Al-Jazeera correspondents who are in detention, Lotfi Al Masoudi, has been freed, the network reported on its website on 3 April. Al Masoudi was originally detained with his colleagues […]

Two Mexican journalists have been killed in Monterrey in the northern state of Nuevo León in a murder that appears to be tied to organized crime. José Luis “La Gata” Cerda Meléndez, 33, host of the “El Club” program on national TV channel Televisa, and Luis Emanuel Ruíz Carrillo, 20, a reporter for daily “La […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today firmly condemned an attack on Azerbaijani journalist Seymur Haziyev, who was reportedly kidnapped early Saturday morning outside of Baku by masked men who beat him and told him to “be smart.” Haziyev, of the opposition Azadliq (Freedom) Newspaper, said that six assailants speaking Russian among themselves put a sack […]

UPDATE 23.03.2011: Two reporters with Agence France Press (AFP) and a photographer with Getty Images, who were detained last week in Libya reportedly by soldiers friendly to Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi, were released early today, AFP reported. Qaddafi spokesman Mussa Ibrahim announced yesterday that “The leader of the revolution (Moamer Kadhafi) received an appeal from […]