Fivejournalists have been killed and several have gone missing or been detained since Russia launched a full-scale assault on Ukraine in February. On March 23, Russian journalist Oksana Baulina was killed during a Russian attack on Kyiv. On March 14, an attack on a vehicle carrying a team with the U.S. broadcaster Fox News killed French-Irish cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski and Ukrainian journalist Oleksandra Kuvshynova.
On March 13, U.S. documentary-maker Brent Renaud was shot and killed at a checkpoint in Irpin. Ukrainian camera operator Yevhenii Sakun died when Russian military forces shelled a television tower in Kyiv on March 1. (Photo shows Russian journalist Oksana Baulina, who was recently killed during Russian shelling in Kyiv. Credit: Timur Olevskiy)
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The National Union of Journalists of Ukraine reports that Viktor Dedov, a senior camera operator at the Mariupol-based independent television station Sigma-TV, was killed in the shelling of his apartment building on March 11
People face off with Kentucky State Troopers during a protest against the deaths of Breonna Taylor by Louisville police and George Floyd by Minneapolis police, in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. May 29, 2020. REUTERS/Bryan Woolston – RC2PYG9106R3
People face off with Kentucky State Troopers during a protest against the deaths of Breonna Taylor by Louisville police and George Floyd by Minneapolis police, in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. May 29, 2020. REUTERS/Bryan Woolston – RC2PYG9106R3
A woman takes part in a protest outside the CNB Radio headquarters in Caracas August 1, 2009. The first of 34 radio stations ordered shut by the Venezuelan government went off the air on Saturday, part of President Hugo Chavez’s drive to extend his socialist revolution to the media. The banner reads, “Where is your freedom of information?” REUTERS/Jorge Silva (VENEZUELA POLITICS CONFLICT MEDIA) – GM1E582029G01
On March 15, 2022, unidentified attackers shot and killed Linares, the co-founder and editor of news website Monitor Michoacán, at his home in Zitácuaro. Linares is the second Monitor Michoacán staff member killed in 2022. On January 31, unknown assailants shot and killed 55-year old Roberto Toledo Barrera.
In the days after Toledo’s killing, Linares received death threats over his reporting and was enrolling in the Mexican Federal Mechanism for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders and Journalists. The Michoacán state prosecutor’s office said it had opened an investigation under its protocols for crimes against journalists.