A Haitian journalist died Sunday after being shot in the head when police opened fire on reporters demanding the release of one of their colleagues who was detained while covering a protest, witnesses told The Associated Press. Reporters at the scene identified the slain journalist as Romelo Vilsaint and said
North America
2 journalists killed in Mexico, 10th and 11th of the year
61 Mexican journalists killed
If investigative journalism or press freedom is criminal, then, the cost of practising is becoming risky as evidenced by the killing to date of over 55 practitioners in Mexico, fuelling concern by watchdogs over the unabated brutality. Since the early 1980s, journalists have either been killed through stab wound, imprisoned, reported