Media employees killed in 2008


Cases are listed by order of country

Afghanistan (1)

January 14
Carsten Thomassen, journalist, Dagbladet

Brazil (1)

January 5
Walter Lessa de Oliveira, television cameraman, TV Assembléia

Bolivia (1)

March 29
Carlos Quispe Quispe, journalist, Radio Municipal,

Honduras (1)

January 1
José Fernando Gonzáles, owner, station Radio Mega

Iraq (6)

May 4
Sirwa Abdel Wahab, freelance journalist

April 25
Jassem Al-Battat, journalist, Al-Nakhil

March 13
Qassem Abdul Hussein al-Eqabi, head of public relations and distribution, Al-Muwaten

February 27
Shihab al-Tamimi, head of the Iraqi Journalists Syndicate

February 12
Hisham Mijawet Hamdan, journalist, Al-Siyassa wal-Karar

January 28
Alaa Abdulkarim Al-Fartoosi, cameraman, Al-Forat

Palestinian Territories (1)

April 16
Fadel Shana, cameraman, Reuters

Nepal (1)

January 12
Pushkar Bahadur Shrestha, publisher, Highway Weekly and New Season

Pakistan (2)

February 29
Siraj Uddin, correspondent, The Nation

February 9
Dr. Abdus Samad Chishti Mujahid, photojournalist and columnist, weekly Akhbar-e-Jehan

Russia (2)

March 21
Ilyas Shurpayev, correspondent, Russian state television’s Channel One

March 21
Gadzhi Abashilov, head of the state radio and television company in Dagestan

Somalia (1)

January 28
Hassan Kafi Hared, reporter, Somali National News Agency

 

Browse by year
Total
2008
17
2007
95
2006
110
2005
58
2004
72
2003
53
2002
46
2001
60
2000
53
1999
70
1998
28
 

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