A reporter for an Urdu-language newspaper has been shot dead in Pakistan after interviewing a spokesman for Tehreek-e-Taleban Pakistan, the Pakistan Taliban Movment.
The shooting of Muhammad Ibrahim took place in the Bajaur tribal region, near the Afghanistan border in the north of Pakistan.
Three men reportedly gathered up Ibrahim's cellphone, camera and notes. (thanks, Mungo).
In Sri Lanka, journalists are protesting after one of their colleagues was kidnapped and then released, but not before suffering a terrible beating.
Keith Noyahr, deputy editor with the English weekly The Nation, had been critical of the Sri Lankan army's conduct in its conflict with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, said the Free Media Movement.