Reporters Without Borders (RSF)

Reporting on death squads within national police may make investigative journalist Doris Aguirre victim number 28.

Faiq Amirov, the financial director of the leading opposition daily Azadlig, was accused of being an imam in the movement led by Fethullah Gülen, the US-based Turkish cleric now regarded by Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as the leading threat to his government. He was arrested and charged two days later with “inciting religious hatred”.

RSF condemns a grenade attack on Kosovo’s state-owned radio and TV broadcaster RTK in Pristina and calls on the authorities to bring those responsible to justice.

Less than six weeks away from a constitutional referendum, Azerbaijan unleashes a new wave of repression.

One day after the brutal murder of a Kurdish report in Dahuk, a TV cameraman died while covering fighting between Kurdish forces and ISIS near Mosul.

IFEX members protest the impact on free expression of the overly broad bill, adopted on 12 August.

The editor of Najot, a newspaper linked to the opposition Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan (IRPT), Khikmatullo Sayfullozoda was arrested on 16 September 2015, at the same time as the IRPT’s leaders, and was sentenced to 16 years in prison on 2 June 2016.

The explosion occurred shortly after the body of a prominent lawyer, Bilal Anwar Kasi, who had been the victim of a shooting attack in another part of the city, was brought to the hospital. Media outlets sent reporters to cover the scene there.