“What I prayed for was that if they killed me, they would leave my body in sight…That way I would not be a ‘desaparecido.’” The men from the Sinaloa cartel had made a mistake, and…
A Nigerian press group has issued a new plea for the release of a well-known newspaper columnist kidnapped from her home in southern Nigerian city of Port Harcourt. Unidentified gunmen wearing police uniforms kidnapped Donu Kogbara…
When I arrived they were like “Oh finally, someone came instead of covering the story from miles away.” [caption id="attachment_4333" align="alignleft" width="200"] Chika Oduah (Courtesy photo)[/caption] After the Islamic militant group Boko Haram abducted nearly…
Earlier this year, you may have heard of an incident in a small city in Mexico, where a group of 43 teaching students disappeared. The men who vanished in September were studying at a rural…
A Mexican journalist was abducted and threatened on Oct. 5 for planning to cover a peace rally in the east-central state of Puebla. Miguel Ortega, a reporter for the RexRadio news outlet in Teziutlan, told…
Militants from the Islamic State in the Levant (ISIL) have threatened to behead an Iraqi cameraman kidnapped on Sept. 7. ISIL abducted Raad Mohamed al-Azaoui of Sama Alah Aldeen TV and 20 other Iraqis in…
Three Ukrainian journalists were detained by pro-Russian rebels in the eastern city of Donetsk in an effort to persuade them to report on the insurgency more favorably. A group of armed men deteined Alexander Bryzh,…
The decapitated body of an outspoken Mexican newspaper columnist was found in a garden on the outskirts of the tourist city of Acapulco June 2. Jorge Torres Palacios, a journalist and spokesperson for the local…
Six years after being rescued from her captors, a former Colombian presidential candidate seeks solace in religion After she was caught during her fourth escape attempt, Ingrid Betancourt was beaten and led by a chain…
Kidnapping highlights risks to reporting on conflict in troubled Lebanese city By Margaux Bergey Journalists Jeppe Nybroe and Rami Aysha wanted to shoot a video story about Syrian armed groups kidnapping people for ransom. On…
