A VIDEO journalist who covered crime in the Dominican Republic for the daily news programme Detrás de la Noticia was killed on August 7 after receiving threats that he would die if he continued reporting drug trafficking and other crime. Colleagues of Normando García, reported they had also been threatened. The driver of his car was also killed.

A JOURNALIST in Azerbaijan who was the victim of a knife attack claims the wrong man has been convicted of the crime. Journalist Agil Khalil insists his attackers were security ministry employees, not the convicted man, and that the trial had been staged with the sole purpose of discrediting him.

KHIM SAMBO, a Cambodian journalist working for the opposition paper Moneakseka Khmer, was shot dead, along with his 21-year-old son, in the run-up to the Cambodian general election in July. The paper’s editor had previously been charged with printing allegations that Cambodia’s foreign minister had ties to the former Khmer Rouge regime.