Sixty-five journalists were killed in direct relation to their work in 2007, the Committee to Protect Journalists said in a year-end report, making the journalist death toll its in more than a decade. Iraq was the deadliest country for the press for the fifth straight year with 32 journalists killed. Visit CPJ's Web site to access the report.

Serkalem Fasil, an Ethiopian publisher who received a 2007 IWMF Courage in Journalism Award, was denied her applications to launch new newspapers this week by the Ethiopian government. Fasil and her husband, journalist Eskinder Nega, along with another publisher, Sisay Agena, reportedly fulfilled all legal requirements and submitted applications for Lualawi and Habesha, two current affairs Amharic-language weeklies. The journalists were previously imprisoned and their newspapers shut down by the government. Click here to read the CPJ alert.

Huda Ahmed, an Iraqi journalist who is the IWMF's 2006-07 Elizabeth Neuffer Fellow, was featured on WBUR, the National Public Radio affiliate in Boston. Click here to listen to the segment.

Sara was an anchor for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s national news program “Landline.” She started at ABC in 1993, reporting from Africa as a foreign correspondent from 2000-2005. Sara is also an author; she took leave from her reporting job in 2005 to write a book on African women called GoGo Mama. Sara, who has covered topics such as poverty, war, political unrest, ethnic violence and violence against women, began work on her next GoGo Mama book in Asia in 2008.

Mexico's Supreme Court ruled Nov. 29 that the rights of Lydia Cacho, the recipient of a 2007 Courage in Journalism Award from the International Women's Media Foundation, were not violated when the governor of Puebla had her jailed on defamation charges. Cacho called the ruling "a blow to Mexican journalism."  Click here to read the article in The New York Times.

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Russian prosecutors say a total of nine people, including a security service official, have been charged over the murder of reporter Anna Politkovskaya. Politkovskaya, a 2002 recipient of a Courage in Journalism Award, was killed in Moscow in October 2006.  Read the BBC article.

Salih Saif Aldin, an Iraqi reporter in The Washington Post's Baghdad bureau, was shot and killed Oct. 13 in Iraq. Aldin, 32, had taken a taxi from the bureau to interview residents in the Sadiyah neighborhood about sectarian violence. Read the article in The Washington Post.

The Institute for War & Peace Reporting has honored Sahar al-Haideri, an Iraqi reporter, with a 2007 Kurt Schork Memorial Award. Al-Haideri, 44, was a contributor to the Institute for War & Peace Reporting and Iraqi media. She was gunned down in June in Mosul after receiving death threats because of her reporting work.  Read the IWPR press release.

The killer of 2002 IWMF Courage in Journalism Award recipient Anna Politkovskaya is known to Russian authorities, the chief investigator on the case said, but no charges have been filed yet. Politkovskaya had been a reporter for the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta and was an outspoken critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin. She was killed in October 2006.

Kimberly Dozier, a CBS correspondent who was critically wounded by a car bomb in Baghdad in May 2006, wrote about her injuries in an article in The Washington Post. The explosion killed four people.  Click here to read the article in The Washington Post.

Adela Gomez, a radio reporter for FM XXI in Argentina, was injured Sept. 12 while covering a union protest by workers of an oil services company. Gomez was shot twice with rubber bullets after identifying herself as a reporter.  Read the CPJ alert.

Huda Ahmed, the 2006-07 IWMF Elizabeth Neuffer Fellow and one of the recipients of a 2007 Courage in Journalism Award, writes in the Huffington Post about the excitement of Iraq's soccer team winning the Asian Cup against Saudi Arabia. Ahmed was formerly a reporter for McClatchy Newspapers in Iraq.  Click here to read the article. 

Russian investigators have arrested ten people in connection with the killing of 2002 IWMF Courage in Journalism Award recipient Anna Politkovskaya. According to journalists at Novaya Gazeta, the independent newspaper where Politkovskaya worked, those detained include members of an ethnic criminal group specializing in contract killings, as well as former and current agents of law enforcement agencies and secret services. Read more.