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  No illusions

  No one should be under the illusion that every journalist killed for what he or she reported or commented on was fighting for freedom, for principle, for public interest,... Read more

• Court downgrades charge from murder to homicide in radio broadcaster’s killing

  CMFR/Philippines – A Court in Cebu City on 16 January 2014 convicted a man of homicide in the case of a radio broadcaster killed 13 years ago in the... Read more

• Court of Appeals affirms dismissal of murder charge against former governor

  CMFR/Philippines – The Court of Appeals has affirmed its earlier decision dismissing the murder case against former Palawan Governor Joel Reyes, the alleged mastermind in the killing of broadcaster... Read more

• Family of slain broadcaster asks Appellate Court for a fair decision

  CMFR/Philippines – The family of slain broadcaster and environmentalist Gerardo “Gerry” Ortega is appealing to the Court of Appeals (CA) for a fair and just decision on the motions... Read more

• Radio journalist slain in Brazil

  Unknown gunmen shot and killed a radio journalist last September 1 in Tabatinga, a municipality in Amazonas, Brazil, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reported. Read more

• Journalist supporting former president killed

  A journalist supporter of a former president of Honduras was killed after sustaining nine gunshots from a group of assassins last September 8 in Bijao, Puerto Cortés City, Comité... Read more

• Iraqi radio journalist gunned down

  An Iraqi radio journalist was shot dead by unknown gunmen last September 8 in Baghdad, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Read more

• Malaysian cameraman killed, another wounded in Somalia

  African Union troops allegedly killed a Malaysian television cameraman and injured his colleague last September 2 while they were in a convoy with a humanitarian aid organization in Mogadishu,... Read more

• Justice Department creates new panel to reinvestigate murder of Palawan-based broadcaster

  The secretary of the Philippine Department of Justice (DOJ) ordered the formation of a new panel last 7 September 2011 to reinvestigate the murder of Palawan-based radio broadcaster... Read more

• Mexican journalist’s body found

  Authorities found the body of a Mexican journalist last August 25 in Culiacán, Sinoloa, a northwestern state in Mexico a day after he was abducted by unidentified armed men,... Read more