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Venezuelan freelance photographer Jesús Medina Ezaine was detained in 2018 by intelligence agents and charged with inciting hate and criminal association. His case has been marked by repeated delays based on flimsy procedural grounds and has yet to go to trial. On August 29, 2018, Venezuela’s intelligence service, the Servicio Bolivariano de Inteligencia Nacional (SEBIN),…

Unidentified gunmen kidnapped John Cantlie, a British freelance photojournalist who contributed to The Sunday Times and The Sunday Telegraph, along with U.S. freelance photojournalist James Foley when they were traveling in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib toward the border with Turkey on November 22, 2012, according to news reports. According to an October 2014 New York…

Chandan Tiwari, a local reporter with Hindi daily Aj in Jharkhand’s Chatra district, was abducted and badly beaten on October 29, 2018. Police said the reporter was found injured in a forest about 175 miles from Pathalgada, in Jharkhand.  He succumbed to his injuries the next day, according to NDTV. Jharkhand police identified four people–Maoist…

Unidentified attackers shot and killed Russian camera operator Kirill Radchenko and two colleagues – freelance reporter Orkhan Dzhemal and documentary filmmaker Aleksandr Rastorguyev – on July 30, 2018, while they were driving about 30 kilometers (about 19 miles) north of the town of Sibut in the Central African Republic. Radchenko was 33. A statement issued by the now-defunct Moscow-based investigative media outlet The…

Unidentified attackers shot and killed Russian documentary filmmaker Aleksandr Rastorguyev and two colleagues – freelance reporter Orkhan Dzhemal and camera operator Kirill Radchenko – on July 30, 2018, while they were driving about 30 kilometers (about 19 miles) north of the town of Sibut in the Central African Republic. Rastorguyev was 47. A statement issued by the now-defunct Moscow-based investigative media outlet The…

Unidentified attackers shot and killed Russian freelance reporter Orkhan Dzhemal and two colleagues – documentary filmmaker Aleksandr Rastorguyev and camera operator Kirill Radchenko – on July 30, 2018, while they were driving about 30 kilometers (about 19 miles) north of the town of Sibut in the Central African Republic. Dzhemal was 51. A statement issued by…

Musa Abdul Kareem, an editor and photojournalist for the local newspaper Fasanea, was abducted the morning of July 31, 2018, and found dead later that day, according to the Libyan Center for Freedom of the Press and news reports. In an article on its website, the Libyan Center for Freedom of the Press said that armed, masked men in two…

Anwar al-Rakan died June 2, 2018, in Taiz Governorate, Yemen, two days after being released by the Ansar Allah movement, commonly known as the Houthis, according to a statement from the Yemeni Journalists Syndicate sent to CPJ and to news reports. Nabil Alosaidi, co-chair of the Yemeni Journalists Syndicate, told CPJ that according to al-Rakan’s family, the…

Ham Jin Woo, a reporter for the South Korean news website Daily NK, was abducted on May 29, 2017, while he was reporting on the Chinese side of the China-North Korea border between Sanhe, Longjin in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture of China and Hoiryong City, North Korea, according to a report submitted to the…

Paúl Rivas Bravo, an award-winning photographer for the Quito daily El Comercio, was killed between April 10 and 12, 2018, along with the other two members of his reporting team, in southwest Colombia. He was 45 years old. Rivas, reporter Javier Ortega, and their driver, Efrain Segarra, were abducted on March 26, 2018, by a dissident drug…