Covering the war in Ukraine is taking a horrific toll on journalists and media workers both local and international.
French journalist Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff was killed near the city of Severodonetsk in the east, whilst covering an evacuation operation for broadcaster BFMTV.
Francisca Sandoval, 29, was shot on May 1, 2022 when gunmen opened fire during a Workers’ Day demonstration and subsequent looting in the Barrio Meiggs area of Chile's capital Santiago.
Shireen Abu Akleh was fatally shot in the head on May 11, 2022 whilst on assignment in the West Bank town of Jenin.
The body of journalist Luis Enrique Ramirez Ramos was found on a dirt road in Culiacan, Sinaloa in northern Mexico.
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Lithuanian film director Mantas Kvedaravicius was killed on 2 April in Mariupol, the Ukrainian city he had documented for many years, according to the Ukrainian Defence Ministry and a colleague.
The photographer and videographer Maksim Levin, who worked for Ukrainian news website LB.ua, was killed while covering Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The journalist was killed by shelling in Kyiv while on an editorial assignment for The Insider, a Latvia-based investigative news website.
On Tuesday, March 15, unidentified attackers shot and killed Linares, the co-founder and editor of news website Monitor Michoacán, at his home in the central city of Zitácuaro.
Irish cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski was killed after his vehicle was struck by incoming fire in Horenka, outside Kyiv, Ukraine.
Kuvshinova, 24, was working as a consultant for Fox News when she was struck by incoming fire in Horenka, outside Kyiv, Ukraine.
U.S. video journalist Brent Renaud was killed while reporting in Irpin, a suburb of Kyiv.
Sadurni was a prolific photojournalist who documented human rights struggles, political resistance and gender issues in East Africa.
Juan Carlos Muniz was shot and killed in the central state of Zacatecas on Friday, officials said, the latest in a string of assassinations of media workers this year.
Sakun, 49, was working as a camera operator for the Ukrainian television station LIVE when he was killed during the bombing of Kyiv’s television and radio tower.
Jorge Camero, 28, was in a gym in Empalme, Sonora, when he was attacked according to the Sonora state prosecutor, who said authorities found eight shell casings at the scene.
Journalist Maximilien Lazard was killed by the Haitian National Police after officers opened fire on a protest by textile workers demanding a higher minimum wage in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti.
Television host and model Michelle Perez Tadeo was found dead in a southern neighborhood of Mexico City three days after being reported missing.
On January 6 or 7, 2022, members of the Myanmar military’s 140 Infantry Battalion abducted at least 10 people, including journalist Pu Tuidim, amid fighting between the military and anti-government forces in Chin State’s Matupi Township, and later executed them, according to news reports.
Wilguens Louissaint, a local reporter, and Amady John Wesley, who worked for Montreal-based radio station Ecoute FM, were shot while reporting on the ground on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince.
Soe Naing was detained in Yangon on Friday December 10 2021 whilst covering a large nationwide 'silent strike' protest against military rule.
Jesus "Jess" Malabanan, 58, a journalist, was shot dead by unknown gunmen in the province of Samar on 8 December, 2021.
Abdiaziz Mohamud Guled, also known as Abdiaziz Afrika, was killed on November 20, 2021, in an al-Shabaab targeted suicide attack in Mogadishu, Somalia's capital.
Avinash Jha, also known as Buddhinath Jha, was an online news reporter for BNN News.
Yemeni journalist Rasha Abdullah al-Harazi was killed in a car bomb attack in the city of Aden.
An independent blogger, Muhammad Zada Agra, was murdered in the Malakand district of the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan.
Cardoso founded and edited an online news magazine called Las Dos Costas.
On October 28, López was shot several times by an unidentified man outside his home in San Cristobal de las Casas, in the Mexican state of Chiapas.
A TV journalist was killed on October 10, 2021 in a car explosion in the southern Pakistani town of Hub, around 12 miles west of Karachi. Shahid Zehri, 35, worked for the Metro 1 News channel as a broadcast reporter. The ethnic separatist group Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) has claimed responsibility for the attack in a press release.
The freelance journalist contributed to the local news channel Sadhna Plus TV. He was found dead on October 4, 2021
Manuel González Reyes was gunned down by two men on a motorcycle in the district of Cuernavaca on the afternoon of September 28.
Arindam Das, a journalist who worked for Network OTV, was killed on September 24, 2021, whilst filming a rescue operation of an elephant.
Marcos Efraín Montalvo worked as a reporter since the 1970s.
In the early hours of August 14, Congolese broadcaster Joel Mumbere Musavuli, who worked across television and radio, was assassinated alongside his wife by suspected militiamen.
A radio reporter who covered politics and crime stories has been shot dead in Veracruz, a state on the Mexican Gulf coast.
Manish Kumar Singh was a reporter for the Hindi-language news channel Sudarshan TV who went missing on August 8, 2021, in the East Champaran district of Bihar.
A suspended police officer and his brother have been arrested on suspicion of stabbing journalist Chennakesavulu to death late on Sunday August 9.
Editor-in-chief of Afghanistan's Radio Paktia Ghag, Toofan Omari was targeted and shot in the Afghan capital on August 8, 2021.
Heritier Magayane, a journalist who worked for the state-owned Radio-Television Nationale Congolaise (RTNC), was killed on Saturday 7 August, 2021.
Mexico City, July 28, 2021 – The Committee to Protect Journalist today urged Mexican authorities to immediately and credibly investigate the killing of reporter Ricardo Domínguez López, who went professionally by Ricardo López.
Renante 'Rey' Cortes was shot on the morning of July 22, 2021, outside Cebu City’s dyRB radio station, where he hosted a regular politics programme.
After a weekend marked by serious press freedom violations in different parts of Syria, including a photographer’s death in a bombardment in Idlib province, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for every effort to be made to allow journalists to do their work, regardless of who controls the area where they are operating.
Kandahar- Reuters journalist Danish Siddiqui has been killed while covering a clash between Afghan security forces and Taliban fighters near a border crossing with Pakistan, an Afghan military official has said.
The Dutch crime reporter Peter R de Vries has died just over a week after he was shot in the head in central Amsterdam, the veteran journalist’s family said in a statement released to local media.
Cameraman Aleksandr “Lekso” Lashkarava died after being seriously injured while covering a counter-demonstration by homophobic far-rightists. Reporters Without Borders demands an in-depth, impartial and transparent official investigation of the circumstances of Lashkarava’s death.
Mexico City, June 29, 2021 — Mexican authorities must undertake a swift and transparent investigation into the killing of media worker Saúl Tijerina Rentería, and determine whether he was targeted for his work, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
Miami, July 1, 2021 — Haitian authorities should conduct a swift and comprehensive investigation into the killing of journalist Diego Charles, determine if he was targeted for his reporting, and ensure those responsible are brought to justice, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
Radio presenter Titus Badejo was brutally murdered by armed men outside Club 407, in Ibadan, on 19 June. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in calling on the authorities to investigate this terrible crime and prosecute Badejo's killers.
Gustavo Sánchez Cabrera, director of the news website Noticias Minuto a Minuto, was shot dead on June 17 Santo Domingo Tehuantepec municipality of the southern state of Oaxaca. Unidentified gunmen opened fire at Cabrera as he was walking on the road in the town of Morro Mazatán.