British-Pakistani journalist Asad Qureshi, who was kidnapped in March in Pakistan’s restive Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, has been released, according to the British High Commission in the country, news reports said on Thursday. The High Commission did not release more information, except to say he was receiving consular assistance. Qureshi was abducted from the tribal areas around […]

The first trials relating to the Philippines’ worst-ever political massacre – in which 32 journalists were also slain – started today. A total of 57 people were slaughtered in the southern province of Maguindanao in November 2009. The 32 journalists were part of a convoy intercepted by over 100 gunmen at a roadside checkpoint in […]

Fourteen years ago, Irish crime reporter Veronica Guerin, whose investigations into Dublin’s seedy underbelly had won awards for her and the best-selling Sunday Independent, was gunned down by an unknown killer while she waited in traffic. Last week, an Irish fugitive wanted in connection with her murder was arrested in Amsterdam in a cooperative effort between […]

Radio technician Abdullahi Omar Gedi was killed yesterday in the Garsoor area of Galkayo in Puntland – a semi-autonomous region of Somalia, according to news reports. Gedi, 25, was coming from work at Radio Daljir when he was attacked and stabbed six times, National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) Puntland Coordinator Burhan Ahmed Dahir told […]