Gunmen in Somalia killed Nasteh Dahir, vice-president of the National Union of Somali Journalists, outside his home in the port of Kismayo 500km south of the capital Mogadishu in June. He worked as a freelance for the BBC. Eight journalists were killed in Somalia last year, but no one has been charged.
Sixteen members of the police major fraud squad searched the headquarters of the Sunday Times tabloid in Perth, Western Australia, for four hours after it published a story about the alleged use of a large sum of public funds for electoral purposes.
Qi Chonghuai, a journalist in China’s Shandong province who had written critically about local officials, was in May sentenced to four years jail for fraud and extortion in a trial that lasted 12 hours, according to his wife and lawyers.
Rustam Makhmudov, a 34-year-old Chechen has been charged in absentia with murdering Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, according to local reports. The authorities have yet to release information on the investigation into who ordered her killing.
Turkey blocked access to the YouTube website for the third time in less than two months in May.
P. Devakumar, a broadcast journalist in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, was hacked to death in May. He was the ninth media worker to be killed since 2006 in Jaffna, the main city in the Northern Peninsula which has been under government military control and heavily policed for over a decade. Not one murder of a media worker has been investigated.
Gunmen killed Pierre Fould Gerges, vice president of the Caracas, Venezuela daily Reporte Diario de la Economía, in June. According to the Caracas daily El Universal, earlier threats were not linked to a specific story but to the Diario’s stance against alleged government corruption.