1 April - Nepal - Khagendra Shrestha
Nearly three weeks after he was fatally shot at, editor and publisher of "Dharan Today" newspaper Khagendra Shrestha succumbed to his injuries while undergoing treatment at a hospital in Indian town of Siliguri.
According to reports, a group of unidentified gunmen had shot at Shrestha while he was working at his office on 15 March. He was rushed to BP Koirala Institute for Medical Sciences and later taken to Siliguri for treatment. He remained in coma ever since.
Royal Nepalese Army blamed the Maoist insurgents for the attack, but the rebels have not reacted to the allegations.
According to the Federation of Nepalese Journalists, over 15 journalists have been killed during nine-year-long conflict in the country. Hundreds of journalists have been detained or displaced due to the conflict during this period, it said.

1 April - Iraq - Ahmed Jabbar Hashim
Hashim, a reporter working for the Baghdad-based daily Al-Sabah, part of the U.S.-backed Iraq Media Network, was kidnapped on 25 March by an unidentified armed group. His decapitated body was discovered on 1 April. Insurgents have frequently targeted journalists working for U.S.-backed news outlets in Iraq. Some journalists reported that Hashim might have been killed because he had also done work for U.S. media. Eight armed men in three cars ambushed the journalist while he was taking his daily route home. They decapitated him and sent a recording of the killing to Al-Sabah as a warning.

2 April - Mexico - Alfredo Jiménez Mota
Jiménez Mota, a crime reporter for the daily newspaper, El Imparcial, disappeared from his home in the city of Hermosillo in the northwestern state of Sonora on 2 April. The night of his disappearance he called a colleague at El Imparcial to say that he was going to meet with one of his contacts. Jiménez Mota told his colleague that the contact was "very nervous." No one has heard from Jiménez since that call.
Before he went missing, Jiménez Mota had been investigating drug-trafficking families in the region. Sonora prosecutors have linked his disappearance with his journalistic work. The Prosecutor General of the Republic, Francisco Daniel Cabeza de Vaca, has opened 11 lines of investigation into the case. The national media published the case as a journalist who had been kidnapped by drug-trafficking gangs and who was later murdered.
After the kidnapping, two sisters from Sonora state, Elba and Johann Palma Morquecho, publicly announced that they had been kidnapped by the same gang and that during their captivity they overheard the gang members saying that Jiménez Mota “was dead” after they had “tortured, burned and buried” him. The declarations of the Morquecho sisters also brought to the forefront the possible implication of the State Police Chief of Public Safety in Sonora, Roberto Tapia Chan, in the disappearance of Jiménez Mota. However, this suspicion was subsequently thrown out by the General Prosecutor following a meeting on the matter with the governor of the State of Sonora, Eduardo Tours on 21 July.

4 April - Haiti - Laraque Robenson
Haitian journalist Laraque Robenson, 25, of radio Tele Contact died in a Cuban hospital on 4 April from gunshot wounds he received two weeks earlier in the southern Haitian town of Petit-Goâve in shooting between UN peacekeepers and former soldiers occupying a police station.
Robenson was taken to a hospital in Cuba for treatment to the two gunshot wounds he received to the head and neck during shooting that took place on 20 March when MINUSTAH peacekeepers used force to remove former soldiers from the police station they were occupying in Petit-Goâve.
Two former soliders and a Sri Lankan peacekeeper were killed in the shootout, which Robenson followed from the balcony of Tele Contact.

8 April - Mexico - Raul Gibb Guerrero
On the evening of 8 April 2005, Raúl Gibb Guerrero was shot and killed by four unidentified gunmen as he drove home to Papantla in the eastern state of Veracruz. He had received anonymous death threats days before the attack. Authorities believe Gibb Guerrero was murdered for writing articles about the Gulf Cartel, a powerful drug gang. He worked for La Opinion.

14 April - Iraq - Fadhil Hazem Fadhil
14 April - Iraq - Ali Ibrahim Issa
Two Al-Hurriya television journalists were killed in suicide bombings while on their way to an assignment in Baghdad.
The station's Baghdad director, Nawrooz Mohamed, told that producer Fadhil Hazem Fadhil and cameraman Ali Ibrahim Issa were killed en route to an event honoring the new president, Jalal Talabani. Mohamed told that the journalists were traveling in a car with a reporter and a driver when the bombs exploded outside the Interior Ministry. Fadhil and Issa were both Iraqi.

15 April - Iraq - Shadman Abdullah Izzedine
15 April - Iraq - Laiq Abdullah
Unidentified assailants gunned down Izzedine and Abdulla, as they were driving on the main highway from Kirkuk to Baghdad. Kurdish journalists in Kirkuk said that their car was fired on by a group of armed men driving in a black Nissan. Local journalists also said that Kirkuk TV's anti-insurgent stance has made it vulnerable to attack from armed groups, and they believe Izzedine, a prominent personality on Kirkuk TV, was targeted for his work with the station.

Mid-April - Iraq - Ahmed Al-Rubai
Al-Rubai'i, a reporter and editor at the U.S.-backed daily Al-Sabah who also worked in the media department of the Iraqi National Assembly, was abducted and apparently murdered by unknown perpetrators in Baghdad mid-April. The circumstances of his abduction and apparent murder are not clear. No body was found.
Iraqi officials told the journalist's family that al-Rubai'i had been murdered, colleagues said. The Washington Post reported on June 6 report that "police arrested several members of a criminal gang who admitted to killing several people. Rubai'i's press pass was found among the identity cards in their possession." The Post said the detainees told Iraqi police that al-Rubai'i had been beheaded, although his body was not recovered.
The Iraqi National Guard and Interior Ministry told Al-Sabah staffers that the perpetrators belonged to the militant group Tawhid and Jihad, and they killed al-Rubai'i because he was a "traitor."
Al-Rubai'i worked as a reporter for Al-Sabah. He took a second job as a media officer for the National Assembly five months before his death, staff said.

16 April - Mexico - Dolores Guadalupe Garcia Escamilla
Guadalupe Garcia, 39, reporter for radio station Stereo 91 in Nuevo Laredo, just across from Laredo, Texas died on Saturday of wounds received when she was shot by a suspected drug gang hitman in northern Mexico. The reporter was hit by a hail of bullets on April 5. Garcia, who hosted a crime show on the Stereo 91 station, died in a local hospital

19 April - Ecuador - Julio Augusto García Romero
Photographer Julio Augusto García Romero died after inhaling tear gas while covering a demonstration in downtown Quito, Ecuador's capital.
The demonstration, organized to protest the now-ousted President Lucio Gutiérrez, was moving toward the Palacio de Carondelet, the seat of the executive branch, when police fired water cannons and tear gas grenades into the crowd. The Chilean-born García Romero, 58, was taking photographs of the incident when he collapsed, the Guayaquil-based daily El Universo reported. He was then taken to Red Cross headquarters in Quito, where he arrived with symptoms of asphyxia. Later, however, he suffered cardiorespiratory arrest and was transferred to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to Jonny Franco, spokesman for the Ecuadoran Red Cross.
García Romero worked for the small Chilean news agency La Bocina (The Horn), El Universo said. Local sources told CPJ he also worked for the weekly Punto de Vista (Point of View). He had lived in Ecuador for around 20 years.

23 April - Iraq - Saleh Ibrahim
A television cameraman working for The Associated Press was killed Saturday when gunfire broke out after an explosion in the northern city of Mosul. An AP photographer was wounded in the same incident.
AP identified the victims as Associated Press Television News cameraman Saleh Ibrahim and photographer Mohamed Ibrahim, no relation to the deceased. Saleh Ibrahim was in his early 30s and was a father of five.
The circumstances of the death and injury remained unclear.
The explosion happened around 2:30 p.m. (6:30 a.m. EDT) near al-Yarmook circle in the city 225 miles north of Baghdad, according to other journalists who responded to the blast. The cause of the explosion was not immediately determined.
The two AP journalists drove to the scene together, according to a colleague who was at the scene as well. U.S. forces were in the area when they arrived, the colleague said.
Gunfire broke out, and both Saleh Ibrahim and Mohamed Ibrahim were hit, the colleague told the AP. The colleague's employer asked that his name not be used because of fear for his safety.
Col. Wathiq Ali, the deputy police chief in Mosul, said the explosion targeted a U.S. patrol and injured two Iraqi civilians.
"The police did not interfere in that incident because the U.S. troops were there," he said.
The colleague drove the two injured AP journalists to al-Jumhouri Educational Hospital.
Saleh Ibrahim was treated for three bullet wounds to the chest and died soon after arrival, Dr. Rabei Yassin said at the hospital. Mohamed Ibrahim was treated for shrapnel wounds to the back of the head, Yassin said.
While at the hospital, Mohamed Ibrahim was escorted away by U.S. forces and his whereabouts could not immediately be determined.
The U.S. military said it was investigating.
Saleh Ibrahim was the 28th journalist killed while on assignment for the AP since the news cooperative was founded in 1848.
In addition, Ismail Taher Mohsin, an Iraqi driver who worked for the AP, was ambushed by gunmen and killed near his home in Baghdad last Sept. 2. The reasons for the slaying have never become clear.

29 April - Sri Lanka - Sivaram Dharmeratnam
Sivaram Dharmeratnam, 46, a senior editorial board member of the pro-rebel Tamilnet.com website was found shot dead in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo Friday, hours after unidentified men abducted him from a restaurant. Police said a bullet-riddled body found in the Colombo suburb of Talangama was identified as that of Dharmeratnam by his colleagues.

MAY 5 May - Philippines - Klein Cantoneros A radio broadcaster known for denouncing corruption died today after being shot as many as seven times by motorcycle-riding gunmen in Dipolog City on the southern island of Mindanao. KLein Cantoneros, 32, who frequently criticized local officials for alleged corruption and illegal gambling on his talk radio programme on DXAA-FM, was returning home around 1.30 a.m. local when he was attacked by as many as three gunmen, according to local news reports. Cantoneros was clutching his own .45-calibre pistol when he was found, and he appeared to have fired back at his attackers, according to ABS-CBN, quoting police. Cantoneros' colleague, Robert Baguio, told radio DZBB that the journalist identified his assailants before undergoing surgery, according to Inquirer News Service. Cantoneros' colleagues told reporters that the journalist had received several death threats, some by cell-phone text message, ABS-CBN reported. The journalist's murder comes just days after another radio broadcaster, Nestor Seguismundo of DZXE's Radyo Tirador in Ilocos Sur in the central Philippines, survived an apparent assassination attempt. Seguismundo, whose hard-hitting broadcasts have criticized provincial authorities, sustained a gunshot wound to his stomach on 29 April. 11 May - Philippines - Philip Agustin Philip Agustin, 53, publisher and editor of the Starline Times Recorder, has been shot dead in the northern Philippines. An unknown gunman attacked the community newspaper publisher at his home in Dingalan town. Agustin's paper had published a report calling the Dingalan mayor, Jaime Ylarde, to account over allegedly missing government funds. 15 May - Iraq - Najem Abed Khudair 15 May - Iraq - Ahmed Adam 15 May - Iraq - Ali Jassem Al Rumi The attack took place when the journalists were travelling to Kerbala from Baghdad. They were among 13 passengers in a minibus that was stopped by an armed group who picked out the journalists when they showed their press cards. The rest of the passengers were freed, but Najem Abd Khudair, the Kerbala correspondent for the newspaper Al Mada, Ahmad Adam, a freelance writer for Al Mada and trainee journalist, Ali Jassem Al Rumi, working for Al Safeer newspaper in Baghdad were then killed. 17 May - Afghanistan - Shaima Rizaee Shaima Rizaee, former entertainment presenter for Tolo TV in Kabul was beaten and shot in the head. 21 May - Russia - Pavel Makeev Pavel Makeev, a young cameraman with Puls television station, in Azov (near Rostov-on-Don), was found dead under suspicious circumstances. His body was found by a roadside outside Azov on 21 May 2005, after he finished a report about illegal dragster racing. Police investigators said his body was located about 15 metres from a pool of blood and appeared to have been dragged along the road. Makeev worked for Puls for two years and was regarded by his colleagues as a talented and professional cameraman. 31 May - Iraq - Jerges Mahmood Mohamad Suleiman Suleiman, a news anchor at Nineveh TV, was shot by unidentified assailants in the Iraqi city of Mosul. Nineveh TV is a local affiliate of Al-Iraqiya TV, which is part of the U.S.-backed Iraqi Media Network. Co-workers said Suleiman worked for the station for just 20 days before he was killed. He was shot as he approached Nineveh TV's offices, about 200 meters (219 yards) from the building. Colleagues said Suleiman had not received any prior threats, but they suspect he was targeted because he was an employee of Nineveh TV. Insurgents have frequently targeted Nineveh TV's offices with gunfire and mortars. JUNE 02 June - Lebanon - Samir Qasir Samir Qasir of the al-Nahar newspaper died instantly in the blast of a car bomb outside his home in the Ashrafiyeh neighbourhood, in a residential area of mostly Christian east Beirut. Police said the bomb was placed under the driver's seat of the vehicle. Qasir was a front-page columnist for al-Nahar, where he wrote angrily critical articles against the pro-Syrian Lebanese regime. Mr Qasir was known as a supporter of Lebanon's anti-Syrian opposition. He is the most prominent Lebanese figure to be assassinated since former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. 02 June - Lybia - Daif Al Ghazal Libyan writer and journalist Daif Al Ghazal, who wrote articles critical of the regime for the London-based online newspaper Libya Al-Youm, was found dead on 2 June. Al Ghazal was kidnapped at around midnight on 21 May by two armed men, who forced his car to a stop and took him away into their own vehicle. He said the two gunmen identified themselves as national security officials. Al Ghazal's barely recognizable body was found on 2 June in the eastern city of Benghazi. The autopsy report referred to many signs of torture. Most of his fingers had been severed, and the body had multiple bruises and stab wounds. He had been finished off by a shot to the head. Aged 32, Al Ghazal worked for ten years for the pro-government Movement of Revolutionary Committees (MRC). Al Ghazal also wrote for four years for the daily newspaper Al-Zhaf al-Akhdar ("The Green March", in Arabic), which belongs to the MRC. But he then took a strong stand on the corruption prevailing within the MRC and decided to stop writing for the government press. 05 June - Somalia - Duniya Muhiyadin Nur Duniya Muhiyadin Nur, a Somali broadcast journalist, was killed at the weekend when gunmen opened fire at the vehicle in which she was travelling near the Somali capital Mogadishu. HornAfrik media said Duniya Muhiyadin Nur, who was on assignment, was killed when gunmen manning a checkpoint at a trading post opened fire on the vehicle near the town of Afgoi, about 30 kilometers (20 miles) from Mogadishu. She died instantly. 19 June - Azerbaijan - Alim Kazimli Alim Kazimli, 54, who had worked for the main opposition daily Yeni Musavat for the past 12 years, died on 19 June 2005 as a result of a beating he received on 28 December 2004 at the Narimanov police station in Baku that left him paralysed on his left side. He fell into a coma on 17 June and then died of a brain haemorrhage. 22 June - Iraq - Jassim Al-Qais Journalist Jassim Al Qais of Iraqi daily Al Siyada was shot dead on 22 June 2005 along with his son as they travelled on a road 10 kilometres north of Baghdad. 24 June - Iraq - Yasser Salihee Iraqi special correspondent for Knight Ridder, was shot to death in Baghdad. The shot appears to have been fired by a U.S. military sniper, though there were Iraqi soldiers in the area who also may have been shooting at the time. Salihee, 30, had the day off and was driving alone near his home in the western Baghdad neighborhood of Amariyah when a single bullet pierced his windshield and then his skull. He was shot as his car neared a joint patrol of American and Iraqi troops who had stopped to search a building for snipers. American and Iraqi soldiers are frequently targeted by suicide car bombers. The U.S. Army is investigating the incident. U.S. Humvees blocked three of the entry points to the intersection that Salihee was approaching. The one he was driving toward was manned by Iraqi and American soldiers on foot. It's unclear how well Salihee could have seen those troops, and whether they were standing in the road and waving motorists away, or taking cover by the side of the road in case of sniper attack. 25 June - Kosovo - Bardehul Ajeti Bardehul Ajeti, a Kosovar reporter shot near Pristina on June 4, died in hospital. He was attacked near Pristina after his car had broken down. He was shot from a passing car. Ajeti worked for the Bota Sot daily, which is the main press supporter of President Ibrahim Rugova's Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK). 26 June - Iraq - Maha Ibrahim Maha Ibrahim, a news editor with the local Baghdad TV channel, was killed when U.S. troops opened fire after apparently coming under attack in a Baghdad neighborhood, channel director Saad al-Bayati said. Ibrahim and her husband were on their way to the station, owned by the Iraqi Islamic Party. 28 June - Iraq - Ahmed Wael Bakri U.S. troops allegedly killed an Iraqi television director of al-Sharqiya television when he drove near a U.S. convoy, colleagues and a hospital official said. The U.S. military said it had no reports of the incident. He was trying to pass a traffic accident and wasn't paying attention to a U.S. convoy when troops allegedly opened fire at his car. 29 June - Dagestan - Magomed-Zagid Varisov A prominent journalist and political analyst, was shot and killed in Mahachkala, capital of the Russian republic of Dagestan. Varisov, a columnist for Novoye Delo, Dagestan's largest weekly, was returning home with his wife, when unidentified assailants opened fire on his car. Varisov was fatally wounded and died at the scene. His wife was unharmed; their driver was hospitalised with injuries. Police believe that the attackers targeted Varisov because of his critical reporting. JULY 1 July - Iraq - Khaled Sabih Al Attar The head of Al-Iraqiyah told Agence-France Presse that Attar was kidnapped "shortly before Friday prayers in the north of the city and his body was found a few hours later on an empty lot on the west side." He had been shot to death. Aged 43, he worked for a satirical programme called "I don't give damn" which made fun of the carelessness of staff in government offices. Al-Iraqiyah's headquarters has been the target of several attacks. 1 July - Brazil - José Cândido Amorim Pinto Known as "Jota Cândido" to his listeners, José Cândido Amorim Pinto was gunned down in Carpina, in the northeastern state of Pernambuco, as he was parking his car outside Rádio Comunitária Alternativa, where he worked. Two men riddled him with bullets before making off on a motorcycle. He had been receiving threats for almost six months and had been injured in an earlier shooting attack on 21 May. Amorim, presenter of an investigative programme for his radio station, reported and commented about corruption cases on the air. 3 July - Philippines - Rolando Morales Rolando Morales was riding a motorcycle in Polomolok town in South Cotabato province late Sunday when gunmen stopped him and opened fire with pistols and assault rifles, killing him instantly and wounding his companion, Chief Superintendent Danilo Mangila said. After he fell on the ground, the gunmen shot him again to make sure he was dead. His companion was taken to a hospital, Mangila said. The gang-style attack happened shortly after Morales left Radio dxMD, where he had built a reputation as a commentator who had hit hard local politicians linked to drug syndicates, he said. 5 July - Pakistan - Ubaidullah Azhar Gunmen ambushed a car carrying a local journalist, killing him and another person in the vehicle in a tribal region of northwestern Pakistan. However, it was not clear who was behind late Tuesday's killings of Ubaidullah Azhar and his friend Gul Wahid in Dargai, a town in the deeply conservative North West Frontier Province. Police have registered a case against the unidentified attackers and officers were still investigating. 14 July - Haiti - Jacques Roche Jacques Roche, the editor of the daily Le Matin's arts and culture section, was murdered and his body was found in a chair on a Port-au-Prince street, four days after he was kidnapped on the 10th July. He was shot several times and his body bore the signs of torture. Roche, who also presents a TV programme, was kidnapped as he was driving in a car in the Nazon district of Port-au-Prince. When his kidnappers called the family to demand the 250,000 dollar ransom, Roche said he had been beaten. 23 July - Iraq - Adnan Al Bayati Adnan Al Bayati, Iraqi television producer and interpreter, was killed at home in Baghdad in the presence of his wife and daughter. Mr Adnan had been working for Italian television stations Rai, Mediaset and TG3, and for the magazine Panorama. 27 July - Colombia - Alberto Martinez Prader Alberto Martinez, a veteran sports reporter, was killed while reporting live on a cycling race when his car crashed on a sharp mountain bend. The radio journalist was standing in the back of a convertible with a microphone in hand watching riders compete in the Tour de Colombia when the car's brakes apparently failed and the vehicle hit a side barrier before flipping over. Two other reporters in the car, a radio technician and the driver were injured and rushed to a hospital. 27 July - Sierra Leone - Harry Yansaneh Harry Yansaneh, the editor of "For Di People", died of kidney problems apparently caused by an assault he suffered on 10 May. Yansaneh explicitly accused Member of Parliament Fatmata Hassan of ordering the attack. According to Yansaneh, one of Hassan's sons threatened him and vandalised the "For Di People" office. When the editor was on his way to the police station to make an official complaint about the incident, he was set upon by a group. Yansaneh also accused Hassan herself of being present when Bureh sat on his neck and threatened to kill him. The motives for the assault appear to be Hassan's apparent desire to evict "For Di People" from their offices, coupled with the member of parliament's dislike of the newspaper's criticism of the government. Yansaneh took over the editorship of "For Di People" in October 2004. AUGUST 02 August - Iraq - Steven Vincent US freelance reporter, Steven Vincent, has been shot dead by unknown gunmen in Basra, southern Iraq. Mr Vincent was abducted with his female Iraqi translator at gun point by five gunmen in a police car as they left a currency exchange shop. His bullet-riddled body was found on the side of a highway south of the city a few hours later. Mr Vincent was shot several times in the head and body. The translator, Nour Weidi, was seriously wounded. Mr Vincent had been in Basra in recent months working for the Christian Science Monitor and the New York Times. He had been writing a book about the city. 12 August - Sri Lanka - Relangi Selvarajah Popular Tamil broadcaster Relangi Selvarajah and her husband, a political activist, were killed by unidentified gunmen in Colombo on the same day that Sri Lanka's foreign minister Lakshman Kadirgamar was assassinated. The attackers shot dead Selvarajah, 44, and her husband Senathurai in the office where they ran a travel agency. Police have made no arrests. Sri Lanka's Sunday Times reported that the LTTE had criticized Selvarajah for broadcasting anti-LTTE programs. Selvarajah was a radio and television host for twenty years, presenting news programs for the state-run Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC) and recently for the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation, according to the Free Media Movement, a local press freedom organization. Local newspapers reported that Selvarajah also produced the SLBC program "Ithaya Veenai", a program known for criticizing the LTTE, and allegedly funded by the opposition Tamil political party the Eelam People's Democratic Party. Sri Lanka's Daily Mirror quoted police as saying that they suspected the couple may have been murdered because of Ms. Selvarajah's anti-LTTE programs. But their connection to PLOTE also raised the possibility that their killing may have been part of a larger cycle of violence, and could be connected to the April murder of well-known pro-LTTE Tamil journalist Dharamaratnam Sivaram. Sivaram was a former member of PLOTE who defected to the LTTE. 14 August - Nicaragua - Rony Adolfo Olivas a correspondent for the daily newspaper La Prensa was shot dead in the city of Estelí, 150 km north of Managua. Olivas also reported for the radio station Liberación and was president of the Estelí branch of the Nicaraguan Journalists Union (Unión de Periodistas de Nicaragua - UPN). He had recently written articles on drug trafficking and had received death threats. 22 August - Indonesia - Elyuddin Telaumbanua Elyuddin Telaumbanua, a journalist with the daily newspaper Berita Sore, was abducted on the island of Nias off the northwestern coast of Sumatra on 22 August. Mr Telaumbanua was on his way home from a reporting trip when he and another journalist were ambushed by a group of men on motorcycles, who overtook the pair, forcing them to the side of the road. The two journalists were beaten, but only Mr Telaumbanua was abducted. Although investigating authorities have come up some leads, witnesses in the case are reportedly too frightened to testify. 27 August - Iraq - Rafed Mahmoud Al-Rubai Rafed Mahmoud al-Rubai was shot by unidentified gunmen while covering a pro-Saddam Hussein rally on Saturday. Rubai, a freelance contributor to the Iraqi TV station Al Irakiya, died instantly. 27 August - Iraq - Rafed Mahmoud Said Al-Anbagy Al-Anbagy, a 36-year-old news anchor and director at Diyala TV, part of the U.S.-backed Iraq Media Network, was shot dead in Za'toun neighborhood in the city of Baaquba, east of Baghdad, while covering a football match. Al-Anbagy was interviewing one of the team's coaches when gunmen opened fire, killing both men. Al-Anbagy was shot in the head. Diyala sources said they believe al-Anbagy was killed because of his on-air criticism of insurgent groups and former Baathists. The sources said al-Anbagy had received several death threats for his reporting. 29 August - India - Bhimashi Mannapur 29 August - India - Devdas Shahade Two journalists were killed on the spot when the Tata Sumo they were travelling in collided with a Maxi Cab near Koulgudda Cross on Athani- Kagwad road on Monday. Journalists have been identified as Bhimashi Mannapur (35) of Karnataka Times, Kannada daily published from Gokak, and Devdas Shahade (35) of Mahasatta, a Marathi daily published from Sangli. SEPTEMBER 01 September - Indonesia - Erman Tasrial Singgalang reporter Erman Tasrial was killed in a helicopter crash along with 5 officers. The body of Erman was laid out at the office the Singgalang newspaper on Jl. Veteran. The MI-2 helicopter crashed amid heavy rain in the national park situated some 20 kilometers from Padang. The officers and the journalist were on their way to Padang after inspecting a forest fire in Solok regency. 16 September - Iraq - Hind Ismail Hind Ismail, a 28-year-old reporter for the local daily As-Saffir, was kidnapped in the northern city of Mosul. Police in the southern suburb of al-Muthana found her body the next morning with a single bullet wound to the head. 19 September - Iraq - Fakher Haider Fakher Haider, an Iraqi working as a reporter for the New York Times was found dead in the southern city of Basra after being kidnapped by masked men. He had worked for the Times for 2-1/2 years, was found with his hands bound and a single bullet wound to the head. Haider's brother told that four masked men in a dark Toyota vehicle had arrived at the family home in an apartment complex in central Basra after midnight. They said they were from the intelligence services and that they needed to speak to Haider in connection with an investigation. They bundled him into their vehicle and told his wife and family not to interfere. 20 September - Iraq - Firas Maadidi Firas Maadidi, the Mosul bureau chief for As-Saffir and chief editor of the local daily Al-Masar, was killed outside his Mosul home. He was 40. He was killed after being shot six times, including two shots to the head. Maadidi died hours later in hospital. OCTOBER 4 October - Nepal - Maheshwor Pahari Journalist Maheshwor Pahari, who was in detention for a year and a half for being a supporter of the Maoist ideology, has died on Tuesday [4 October] night. Pahari, 32, had not been well for the past one-and-a-half months. His family members have criticized the government for not providing him timely treatment in detention. He had been admitted to the western regional hospital last week. He used to work for the Swabhiman weekly published from Pokhara. He was arrested from Lwangghalel in Kaski in January 2004. 18 October - Belarus - Vasily Grodnikov A freelance correspondent for the opposition newspaper, Narodnaya Volya, was found dead with a head wound in his home in Zaslauje, near Minsk. According to reports, the journalist's family believes that he was murdered. Narodnaya Volya, which is frequently critical of the Belarusian authorities, has suffered ongoing harassment. 19 October - Iraq - Mohammad Harun Hassan Mohammad Harun Hassan, an editor and the Executive Secretary of the Iraqi Journalists Syndicate, was gunned down by unknown attackers in Baghdad city centre. Harun Hassan was the editor-in-chief of the highly regarded Nabdh Al Shabeb Newspaper. He was known for being a well-respected senior journalist and an influential trade union activist who held a top position within the Iraqi Journalists Syndicate. He was on his way to meet the editor in chief of the Baghdad paper Al Qarar in the early afternoon when he was shot four times while driving near the Al Nahda quarter. 22 October - Afghanistan - Maiwand The journalist, a 22-year-old cultural reporter with a local radio station, was killed in a bomb blast in the eastern province of Khost, a provincial intelligence official said. The remote-controlled bomb appeared to have been targeting one of several American-funded militia units that are helping a nearly 20,000-strong US-led coalition force hunt down Taliban insurgents. Three men working with the unit were also wounded in the blast on Saturday on the outskirts of the provincial capital Khost, Intelligence Director Sadeq Tarakhil told AFP. NOVEMBER 02 November - Thailand - Santi Lammaninin Santi Lammaninin, 38, was shot once in his temple and once in his forehead. He was the owner of the Thai-language Pattaya Post in the Thai beach resort town of Pattaya. His body was found inside his car alongside a road outside of the city, 150 kilometers (90 miles) southeast of the capital, Bangkok. Santi worked also as a freelancer for the military-owned Channel 7 television station as well as for several newspapers. 03 November - Democratic Republic Congo - Frank Kangundu Congolese journalist working with a Kinshasa daily, La Reference Plus, Frank Kangundu, and his wife were this morning murdered by unidentified armed men right in front of their residence at 0115 (local time), Italian-based Missionary Service News Agency web site, Misna has reported. According to Misna, two unidentified armed men attacked the couple at their residence in Limete Commune, in Kinshasa. The attackers reportedly only took a mobile phone and a small amount of cash. The same sources said that the attackers also shot the couple's son in the shoulder. 07 November - Iraq - Ahmed Hussein Al Maliki Ahmed Hussein Al Maliki, an Iraqi journalist working for Tall Afar (Today), an independent weekly covering local news, was found dead in the northern city of Mosul. He was shot, probably not long before his body was discovered. Maliki was kidnapped by insurgents as he was leaving an Internet café in a northern district of the city just over two months ago. No group ever claimed responsibility for his abduction. 08 November - China - Zhou Wenguang Zhou Wenguang, a Chinese photographer, was killed in a traffic accident. The Xinhua News Agency photographer suffered grave injuries in a traffic accident on the way to cover mine cave-ins in north China's Hebei Province and died in a local hospital. The press car, carrying Zhou overturned and fell into the roadside ditch when avoiding a pedestrian who suddenly appeared infront of the vehicle. Zhou was born in 1957 and has a teenage daughter. 17 November - Bangladesh - Gautam Das Das, aged 28, was found dead at his office in Faridpur on 17 November 2005. First reports from the murder scene said that his arms and legs had been broken and that his neck bore the marks of blows. A post mortem has been held but the results have not yet been made public. Das, a former correspondent on the daily Prothom Alo, specialised in investigations into illegal activities and abuse of power on the part of certain public figures in Faridpur. He had recently written articles about drug-trafficking in the region. 18 November - Philippines - Ricardo Uy Uy was gunned down Friday at his family's rice mill in Sorsogon city, 370 kilometers (230 miles) southeast of Manila. The killer escaped on a motorcycle, police said. Uy had accused the military of human rights violation on his radio program "News Flash and Commentaries." The military had used its own radio show to link Uy to communist rebels. 21 November - Philippines - Robert Ramos Unknown gunmen shot dead a journalist just outside the Philippine capital Manila. Robert Ramos, a reporter for the local tabloid Katapat, was shot dead by two gunmen late Sunday in front of a market in Cabuyao town. The motive for the killing or if it was related to his job as a reporter is not known yet. The killing of Ramos came just two days after radio broadcaster and leftist political leader Ricardo Uy was shot dead in the central Philippines. 28 November - Iraq - Aqeel Abdul Ridha 28 November - Iraq - Muqdad Muhsin Two journalists for the state-run al-Iraqiya TV network were killed in Baghdad, police said. Gunmen inside a car opened fire on Aqeel Abdul Ridha and Muqdad Muhsin in the western Baghdad neighborhood of Adil, police said. DECEMBER 01 December - Guinea Bissau - Ouri Djalo 01 December - Guinea Bissau - Unknown Two journalists were killed in a road crash in Gabu (East) while covering the World AIDS Day. The minibus carrying twelve journalists was entering the city when a tire blew out and caused the accident. 7 other journalists were injured in the accident 01 December - Philippines - George Benaojan George Benaojan, 27, a radio broadcaster and columnist for a tabloid newspaper, was gunned down in Talisay City in the central island of Cebu. Witnesses said a lone gunman had staked out the area for several hours before Benaojan arrived. He then shot Benaojan four times. Benaojan is the 10th journalist murdered in the Philippines this year. Police said the killing may be work related. 04 December - Pakistan - Nasir Afridi Nasir Afridi, The president of Tribal Union of Journalists Darra Adamkhel and journalist for Khabrain, a daily Urdu language newspaper, was killed while driving in his car in Northern Pakistan. Afridi was on his way to the press club to attend a meeting when two rival parties, the Bazi Khel and the Mala Khel tribes, opened fire on each other in the main bazaar. A bullet hit the journalist that proved fatal. He expired on his way to hospital. 06 December - Iran - 48 Casualties A military plane hit a Tehran apartment block and burst into flames killing at least 116 people. Among the dead were 68 journalists and media technicians, en route to cover military exercises in the Gulf. The pilot reported engine problems minutes after take off from Tehran's Mehrabad international airport. The plane circled back for an emergency landing but crashed into a densely-populated residential area. 12 December - Lebanon - Gebran Tueni Gebran Tueni, editor and general manager of the Beirut independent daily An-Nahar, was killed in an explosion that targeted his convoy as it travelled through the eastern Christian suburb of Mukhallis, northeast of Beirut. Tueni, also opposition Member of Parliament, was well known for his outspoken criticism of Syrian influence in Lebanon and was one of the first Lebanese editors to publicly condemn the pro-Syrian regime through his columns and public statements. 12 December - Afghanistan - Fahim Ihsan Fahim Ihsan (30), reporter for the Mazar governmental Television was found dead under mysterious circumstances after receiving death threats and being beaten in connection with his controversial and critical reports on local government officials on his television program Shere-Ma-Khane-Ma (My City, my home). The Afghan Independent Journalists' Association (AIJA) are investigating Ihsan's death. top