Television reporter Luis Arturo Mondragon was shot dead on Monday as he left the studios of Canal 19, where he worked, in Santa Clara de Danli, a town outside Tegucigalpa in Honduras, according to news reports. He was killed by two gunmen, a Honduran Security Department spokesperson was quoted as saying. Family members suggested to […]

Two gunmen on a motorcycle shot and killed journalist Joselito Agustin, a reporter and anchorman for the Filipino radio station DZJC Aksyon Radyo, on his way home on Wednesday in Laoag city. Agustin’s killing is the second murder of a journalist in the Philippines within 24 hours. On Monday evening, Desidario Camangyan of Sunshine FM […]

The International Press Institute is deeply concerned by reports that acting editor of suspended Bangladeshi newspaper Amar Desh, Mahmudur Rahman, may have been tortured in police custody. “Your honour, please save my life,” the editor was quoted by local media as telling the court. “I am not supposed to be alive after the level of […]

A day after Israeli commandos intercepted a Gaza-bound flotilla, killing at least nine people and injuring dozens, over 30 journalists who were on board the boats reportedly remained in detention in Israel. A communications blackout was imposed on them, and on the hundreds of activists from the boats who also remained detained as they underwent […]