An Italian photojournalist is reportedly among at least five people killed on Wednesday in Bangkok. The Thai capital has seen widespread rioting in the aftermath of a crackdown by government security forces which led to the surrender of at least four rebel commanders earlier today. “We do not know who killed him”, said Tulsathit Taptim, […]

Three journalists have been injured in clashes between government forces and protesters in Bangkok, Thailand. The injured journalists — Nelson Rand, a Canadian working for broadcaster France 24; a local journalist working for Thai newspaper Matichon and a cameraman working for Thai broadcaster Voice TV — were injured in separate outbreaks of violence in the […]

A journalist in Orissa, India was brutally beaten on 6 May, a day after his paper published an article he wrote alleging irregularities in a government-funded welfare scheme. Biranjan Mallick, who works for local vernacular newspaper Khabar in Suninda, a village in the Balanga district of the eastern Indian state of Orissa, was beaten after […]

A journalist was kidnapped, tortured and killed in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, Iraqi security forces stated on Thursday. Zardasht Osman, who had been kidnapped two days earlier, was found on a highway. He had been shot two times in the head. The 23-year-old was a university student who freelanced for a number of online […]