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Efraín Segarra Abril, a driver working with a photographer and journalist from the Quito daily El Comercio, was killed between April 10 and 12, 2018, along with the other two members of the reporting team, in southwest Colombia. He was 60 years old. Reporter Javier Ortega, photographer Paúl Rivas and Segarra were abducted on March 26, 2018, by a…

Juan Javier Ortega Reyes, a reporter 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 32 years old. Ortega, photographer Paúl Rivas and their driver Efrain Segarra were abducted on March 26, 2018, by a dissident drug trafficking group in the…

At least two gunmen abducted Waheed Mohammed Naji Haider, who worked under the name Waheed al-Sufi, at about 7 p.m. on April 6, 2015, in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, his cousin Fahmy al-Ezzi told CPJ in May 2015. Haider was the editor-in-chief of Al-Arabiya, an independent Yemeni newspaper and website, his cousin said. Haider was abducted…

Afgan Mukhtarli, an Azerbaijani reporter who fled to Georgia in 2014 after receiving threats related to his work, was abducted in Tbilisi and taken across the border to Azerbaijan in 2017. Authorities accused him of smuggling contraband and in 2018 sentenced him to six years in prison.  The journalist’s wife, Leyla Mustafayeva, initially reported him…

Militants from the extremist group Islamic State captured freelance photojournalist Kamaran Najm on June 12, 2014, while he was covering clashes between the militants and the Kurdish Peshmarga in Mullah Abdullah, a village near Kirkuk, according to the journalist’s family and a colleague. Najm founded Metrography, an Iraqi photo agency, with U.S. journalist Sebastian Meyer…

Journalist Utpal Das went missing in Bangladesh on October 10, 2017, according to local news reports. Das is a political reporter at the Bangla-language news site Purbopaschimbd, Khujista Nur e Naharin, the website’s editor, told CPJ. Naharin said she did not believe Das’ disappearance was related to his reporting. Some of Das’ colleagues have expressed concern that his disappearance may…

Gunmen abducted Salvador Adame Pardo, director of the television station 6TV, on May 18, 2017, from the central Mexican town of Nueva Italia in Michoacán state, according to media reports. On June 26, 2017, state authorities told Mexican media that they had found the burned remains of Adame on June 14, 2017, in the town of Gabriel Zamora….

Jean Bigirimana, a reporter with the independent media group Iwacu, formerly with the pro-government radio station Rema FM, left his home in the capital Bujumbura around lunch time on July 22, 2016, after receiving a phone call from a source in the country’s national intelligence service, Iwacu reported. Bigirimana, who also contributed to the news…

Journalist Yameen Rasheed died at the Indira Gandhi Hospital in Malé, the Maldives, after he was stabbed multiple times in the stairwell of his apartment building on April 23, 2017, at around 3 a.m. He was 29. Rasheed was a prominent blogger and satirist who commented on local politics in the Maldives on his blog,…

On July 4, 1982, Kazem Akhavan, a photographer for Iran’s official Islamic Republic News Agency, is believed to have been kidnapped by members of the Christian Lebanese Phalange militia at a checkpoint near the northern Lebanese city of Byblos along with three officials from the Iranian Embassy–Ahmad Motevaselian, Seyed Mohsen Mousavi, and Taghi Rastegar Moghadam….