Posts Tagged ‘journalist killed’
December 20th, 2011
A
Somali journalist was
shot dead by a man wearing a government soldier’s uniform on Sunday in Mogadishu. Abdisalan Sheikh Hasan from Horn Cable TV channel was shot after a government soldier in uniform with an AK47 ordered Hasan and his colleague Zakariye Abdulahi to stop their car. Abdulahi said that without any further questions, the soldier opened fire on Hasan. The TV journalist, who had been receiving death threats, later died in theatre from injuries to his
shoulder and stomach.
November 30th, 2011
A young photographer was
stabbed to death in
Kiev on Monday night. Vitaly Rozvadovsky, a photographer for the Ukrainian weekly
2000, was stabbed at around 11pm and died in hospital around four hours later.
The murder of the 30-year-old is being treated as “murder with premeditation” but it is not believed that the attack relates to Rozvadovsky’s work. Mikhail Denisenko, editor of 2000 said that the photographer had not recently covered any sensitive stories, and he was unaware of Rozvadovsky receiving any threats.
October 20th, 2011
A radio commentator in the
Philippines was
shot dead on 14 October. Datu Roy Bagtikan Gallego was shot dead on the national highway in Sitio Mamprasanon, in Lianga town during an ambush. Gallego, who often criticised mining operations and spoke in defence of tribal rights was due to start a new slot on a radio program this week with 92.7
Smile FM San Francisco. Gallego’s death comes one week after the murder of fellow journalist
Johnson Pascual. Lianga Police have not yet identified any suspects or a motive for the murder.
October 18th, 2011
A cameraman for Al-Yemen TV, Abd Al-Ghani Al-Bureihi,
was killed when
Yemeni security forces opened fire at a demonstration in Sanaa calling for the president to step down on 16 October. Two other cameramen were also allegedly injured at the same demonstration, including Salah Al-Hatar of Al-Jazeera.
October 12th, 2011
A radio journalist
has been killed in a suicide bomb attack in
Somalia. Abdiaziz Ahmed Aden, a reporter and newscaster for Radio Markabley was caught in the attack on
4 October, in which 100 people were killed, and over 100 injured. Aden was dispatched to the capital Mogadishu from the radio station’s base in the Bardhere district, in southwest Somalia, on 30 September to cover ongoing operations against Al-Shabaab militants. In the attack which killed the journalist, a suicide bomber drove a bomb-loaded truck into government ministry security barrier. Aden was initially reported as missing, but was
later identified by his family.
October 10th, 2011
A newspaper editor
was shot on Friday while driving through the
Philippines‘ main island, Luzon. Johnson Pascual, editor-in-chief of local newspaper, Prime News, was shot by two men on a motorcycle in Isabela province, Northern Philippines on Friday morning. Following the shooting, where Pascual was hit in the
head and torso, the journalist lost control of his vehicle and drove it into a ravine, where he died. It is currently unclear whether Pascual’s murder was related to his work as a journalist.
September 20th, 2011
A
Chinese journalist broke the story of a
health scandal on the sale of
cooking oil dredged from gutters was
stabbed to death on Monday. Li Xiang, 30, a reporter with Luoyang Television Station in Henan province, was knifed more than 10 times as he returned home from a karaoke session with friends, local reports said.
September 12th, 2011
Medardo Flores, a
Honduran radio journalist who supported former President
Manuel Zelaya, was
gunned down on the night of 8 September, joining the long list of journalists who have been killed since Zelaya’s forced exile from the country in a June 2009 coup. Regional finance manager of the pro-Zelaya Broad Front for Popular Resistance (FARP), Flores was shot just two days after another leading FARP figure, Emo Sadloo, was
assassinated. Flores’ death brings the number of Honduran journalists killed in the past 18 months to 15.
