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November 12, 2021 India BY Tommy Hodgson

Reporter and activist in Eastern Indian state of Bihar found dead

Avinash Jha, also known as Buddhinath Jha, was an online news reporter for BNN News.

November 9, 2021 Yemen BY Tommy Hodgson

Yemeni journalist killed in car bomb attack

Yemeni journalist Rasha Abdullah al-Harazi was killed in a car bomb attack in the city of Aden.

November 8, 2021 Pakistan BY Tommy Hodgson

Pakistani blogger killed for his work

An independent blogger, Muhammad Zada Agra, was murdered in the Malakand district of the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan.

November 4, 2021 Mexico BY Tommy Hodgson

Alfredo Cardoso Echevarría, a journalist, killed in Acapulco, Mexico

Cardoso founded and edited an online news magazine called Las Dos Costas.

November 2, 2021 BY Cilla Benkö

It is toxic for society when crime goes unpunished

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.

October 28, 2021 Mexico BY Tommy Hodgson

Mexican journalist Fredy López shot

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.

October 10, 2021 Pakistan BY Tommy Hodgson

TV reporter Shahid Zehri killed in targeted explosion

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.

October 4, 2021 India BY Tommy Hodgson