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Novaya Gazeta reporter shot

Anastasiya Baburova, a reporter for Novaya Gazeta, the Russian newspaper funded by Alexander Lebedev, was seriously wounded in a shooting incident in Moscow earlier today. Baburova was travelling with lawyer Stanislav Markelov, who was killed in...

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China: CCTV charged with propaganda

In an open letter posted on Chinese-language website Boxun.com, a group of more than 20 Chinese lawyers, writers, and intellectuals accuse state television CCTV of misleading its audience with propaganda and call for viewers to boycott its...

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Nepal: reporter stabbed to death

A group of around 15 unidentified people attacked and killed 24-year old radio and newspaper reporter Uma Singh, in her home in the southeastern district of Dhanusa on 11 Jan. She died of multiple stab wounds to the head and upper body shortly...

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Sri Lanka: reporter killed

Lasantha Wickramatunga, editor of the Sunday Leader newspaper, was killed after being shot twice in the head on 8 Dec as he drove to work in Sri Lankan capital, Colombo. The attackers are said to have been two gunmen riding motorcycles. The Sunday...

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Transsexual Turkish singer acquitted

Bulent Esroy, a popular transsexual singer in Turkey, was acquitted yesterday of charges of ‘turning the people against military service’. Esroy had spoken out against the military campaign against the Kurdish militia groups in Turkey, but the...

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