Posts Tagged ‘murder’
August 18th, 2011
Shehla Masood, a freedom of information activist and blogger, was
murdered yesterday in the city of Bhopal. The 39-year-old was shot in the neck as she got into a car in front of her home. Over the past two years, Masood had been publicly pushing for the enforcement of the Right to Information (RTI) Act in India. The 2005 RTI Act provides access to certain public documents but those seeking them — namely material involving sensitive local matters — are often targeted by officials, with a dozen people
allegedly being killed last year for doing so.
August 3rd, 2011
TV reporter José Agustín Silvestre was
kidnapped, shot and killed on 2nd August in La Romana,
Dominican Republic. Local papers have claimed his murder is connected to accusations he had made regarding corruption and local delinquency on his programme, The Voice of Truth. Silvestre had also served a prison sentence in May for defamation and slander after accusing a city prosecutor of having drug trafficking connections. The Inter American Press Association called 2011 ”the most tragic year in the last two decades for
Latin American press” in a
report published last month. Silvestre is the 20th reporter to have been killed in the region this year.
February 3rd, 2011
Marbiel Hernandez, a distributor of El Diario and the evening paper PM was
shot dead in Ciudad Juarez on 31 January. The suspected murderer, Ramses Robles Morales, is a member of drug trafficking group La Linea. He has been detained by police and admitted to receiving US$25o for carrying out the murder.
January 3rd, 2011
England’s contempt of court laws have long been toothless, but the Internet and the smartphone have made it clear they are not fit for purpose, as demonstrated in the current “monstering” of murder suspect Chris Jefferies, says Brian Cathcart
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December 9th, 2010
The
prosecutor general’s office has completed its investigation into the role that Oleksiy Pukach, a former intelligence office played in the murder of journalist
Georgiy Gongadze and has announced is unable to lay any further charges despite evidence linking politicians to the murder. Pukach who at the time of the killing was the chief of the external surveillance department at the Ukrainian Interior Ministry will be put on trial in January. Gongadze was a Ukrainian journalist of Georgian descent killed in 2000. He was
investigating high-level corruption allegedly involving senior officials, including president Leonid Kuchma. In March 2008, three former police officers were convicted for their role in Gongadze’s murder.
November 22nd, 2010
TV reporter Mazin Mardan, 18, has been
shot dead in front of his parents in his house in Mosul, northern Iraq. The gunmen showed up at his home around 6pm and identified themselves to his father as intelligence officers. According to
Reporters Without Borders, Mardan is the sixth Iraqi reporter killed in 2010. Not fewer than 230 journalists and media workers have been killed in Iraq since the US-led invasion began in 2003, making Iraq one of the deadliest countries in the world for journalists, CNN reported.
October 7th, 2010
Detectives with the federal Investigative Committee say they are examining an
expanded circle of suspects in the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
The new suspects are said to be ethnic Chechens who wanted to get on the good side of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov. There is no evidence directly linking Kadyrov to the case. The original defendants are still considered as suspects.
Investigative Committee Chairman
Alexander Bastrykin told CPJ on 28 September that his agency was mistaken in “rushing” a previous case to trial.
September 30th, 2010
Top Russian investigators say they
guarantee to pursue 19 cases of murdered journalists presented to them by a delegation from the Committee to Protect Journalists.
The CPJ delegation led by CPJ Chairman Paul Steiger and board member Kati Marton met with the Chairman of the Investigative Committee Bastrykin and other investigators examining the cases.
CPJ representatives met with the Investigative Committee in September 2009 to discuss unsolved cases concerning Russian journalists. This year they returned for an update.
The investigator told CPJ delegation that Alkhazur Bashayev, alleged
murderer of journalist Natalya Estemirova is alive. Authorities are trying to locate his whereabouts in Russia. Bastrykin also said he will find and arrest the suspected murderer of
Anna Politkovskaya, who has fled in Europe.
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