An experienced freelance photojournalist known as Juan Carlos spoke to INSI about his three-month stint in Afghanistan, his many trips across the country, and the time when a car ashtray saved his pictures and, possibly, his life.
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.
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Much of INSI’s activity in 2021 has been devoted to supporting our members’ international news coverage in areas of long-term conflict or instability such as Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Myanmar, Belarus, Gaza or Haiti.
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.
INSI have partnered with UNESCO and TrustLaw, part of the Thomson Reuters Foundation (TRF), to create a practical guide to give journalists the legal tools they need to deal with online harassment. The Know Your Rights (KYR) guide is a legal manual for journalists worldwide to use, launched at the TRF Trust Conference 2021.
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.
In nine cases out of ten, around the world, a person who kills a journalist is not punished. In Sweden, many journalists lack confidence in the capacity of the legal system to deal with hate and threats targeting them. When crime goes unpunished, serious boundaries of thought are shifted.
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.
On September 16, for the first time ever, the European Commission presented a Recommendation to member states on strengthening the safety of journalists, both online and in everyday life. This is a step in the right direction, writes Cilla Benkö, Director-General and CEO of Swedish Radio.
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.