2 July - Sri Lanka - Sampath Lakmal de Silva
The journalist was abducted at 5.00am from his parents home in Borallasgamuwa, South of Colombo. He was found shot dead three km from his home.
Journalist Sampath Lakmal de Silva worked in a number of media institutions as a full time journalist until April this year. He was the defence correspondence of Sathdina weekly before becoming a freelance journalist.

2 July - Yemen - Abed Al-Usaili
Abed Al-Usaili, a journalist and technical secretary at Al-Nahar newspaper was killed in his birthplace, Belad Al-Qabael in Al-Haima district in Sana’a. Press sources affirmed that armed men observed Al-Usaili during the night and shot him dead.
Al-Nahar newspaper statement asserted that Al-Usaili was killed for publishing a short article criticizing Al-Haima district officials for obstructing a water project underway in the area.

8 July - Democratic Republic of Congo - Mwamba Bapuwa
Mwamba Bapuwa, 64 years old and a journalist who worked for several media, was killed at home in Kinshasa on Saturday, just after 2 a.m.
He bled to death after being shot by three assailants who broke into his home. There was no immediate comment from police or the government.
Bapuwa, who had recently returned from France where he had been working, survived a similar attack in March.
He had written a series of political analyses in Kinshasa newspapers, the last of which on Thursday criticised police intimidation and political intolerance.

18 July - Philippines - Armando Pace
Armando Pace, 51, was on his way home shortly after lunch when he was killed along a busy street in downtown Digos City, Davao Del Sur province, 1,005 km south of Manila.
The victim had just hosted his daily programme over a local radio station, according to Chief Inspector Cesar Cabuhat, city police commander.
Cabahut said Pace was riding on his motorcycle when one of two men riding another motorcycle trailing him opened fire. ''Pace was shot in the neck and the left breast,'' Cabahut said. ''He was rushed to the provincial hospital but died minutes later.''
Pace leased blocks of airtime from Radyo Ukay dxDS. He was known for his critical commentaries on local politicians and drug use in his home province, according to international and local media reports.
Cabahut said investigators were already retrieving tapes of Pace's radio programme for possible clues on who could be behind his killing.

18 July - China - Xiao Guopeng
Xiao Guopeng, 39, of the daily Anshun, was attacked by police officer Pan Dengfeng outside the building that houses his newspaper. Pan knocked Xiao to the ground and continued to hit him despite the protests of a crowd that gathered. Xiao was finally rushed to a hospital where he died as a result of cerebral haemorrhaging. The killing may have been linked to Xiao's writing of an article that was critical of local police.

22 July - Afghanistan - Abdol Qoddus
Photojournalist Abdol Qoddus was among the victims who died in the second suicide attack that shook the Mirwais Mena area of Kandahar city around 1800 [local time] on Saturday.
The deceased was working as a cameraman with Ariana Television in Kandahar. He had gone to cover the first suicide attack that killed two and injured eight Canadian troops.
Abdol Jamil Sapand, Ariana's reporter accompanying him to the site of the first blast, told Pajhwok Afghan News their team had gone to the area after the first explosion. As they were boarding a vehicle to reach the hospital and interview some of the injured, there was another explosion that critically injured the cameraman. He was rushed to hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.
Abdol Qoddus, 25, was a resident of southern Helmand Province. He was stationed in Kandahar in connection with his professional responsibilities. He left behind three children and a widow to mourn his death.

23 July - Lebanon - Layal Nagib
Layal Nagib, 23, was killed when a missile exploded near her car on the road between Cana et Siddiqin, not far from the southern city of Tyre. Her driver and local doctors said she was killed instantly. She was covering the Israeli bombing of southern Lebanon for the magazine Al Jarass (The Bell).
As well as working for Al-Jaras, Layal also worked with several foreign news agencies, including the French agency AFP. After graduating from journalism school, she first worked with Newtv as a programme editor. After three years she decided to work as a freelance reporter and photographer.

24 July - Brazil - Ajuricaba Monassa de Paula
Ajuricaba Monassa de Paula, a 73-year-old freelance journalist and member of the local opposition, was beaten to death in public in Guapirimim (in Rio de Janeiro state) on 24 July by a municipal councillor he had criticised. Monassa was affiliated to the Brazilian Press Association (ABI).
The attack took place when Monassa was on a central square in the town of Guapirimim having a argument with a close relative of Osvaldo Vivas, a municipal councillor he had accused of questionable administrative practices. A martial arts black belt, Vivas himself then intervened and began hitting Monassa until he collapsed. He was rushed to the intensive care unit of a nearby hospital where he died of his injuries.

24 July - Iran - Ayfer Serce
Ayfer Serçe, a young Kurdish journalist and militant, was killed during an army operation against Kurdish rebels on 24 July 2006 in Keleres, in the northeastern province of Azarbayjan.
A Turkish national, Serçe worked for the Firat Haber Ajansi (Euphrates News Agency - FHA) using the pseudonym of Silan Aras. She had gone to Azarbayjan in early July to investigate suicides by women in the region, which has a sizeable Kurdish population.
The FHA has accused the Iranian military of killing Serçe. It also reported that when her relatives went to the hospital in the nearby town of Salmas with the aim of collecting and repatriating her body on 24 July, they were told that the Iranian authorities had taken it away. The family was also stopped and searched when they arrived in the town.

26 July - Russia - Yevgeny Gerasimenko
Yevgeny Gerasimenko, a correspondent for the independent weekly Saratovsky Rasklad, was found dead in his apartment in Saratov in southeastern Russia, according to local press reports.
Saratov Department of Interior Spokesman Denis Zheltov said forensic evidence indicated that Gerasimenko had been killed around 1 a.m., the local television channel GTRK Saratov reported. Gerasimov’s mother found the journalist with a plastic bag over his head and multiple bruises on his body. Police found no signs of a violent entry in the apartment, but Gerasimov’s computer was missing, local reports said.
Gerasimenko had been investigating the corporate takeover of a local commercial enterprise, Saratovsky Rasklad Editor-in-Chief Vladimir Spiryagin told the United Volga news Web site. Spiryagin declined to identify the firm because he had not yet discussed details with police investigators, he told United Volga. Spiryagin said Gerasimenko was supposed to file a story on the corporate takeover on July 18 but missed the deadline—something the editor said was very unusual for Gerasimenko.
Colleagues have indicated that Gerasimenko’s murder could be connected to his work. Saratovsky Rasklad often publishes business and political analyses and investigations. The Saratov prosecutor’s office has opened a criminal case but has not commented on possible motives, press reports said.

29 July - Iraq - Adel Naji Al Mansouri
Unidentified gunmen intercepted al-Mansouri, 34, a correspondent for the Iranian state-run Arabic language satellite channel Al-Alam, as he was driving in the al-Amariyeh neighborhood of western Baghdad. Al-Mansouri was driving to the station’s offices when he was attacked.
The gunmen took al-Mansouri’s mobile phone, satellite phone, press card, and money. He was rushed to a hospital but died shortly afterward. It is suspected that al-Mansouri was killed because he was a journalist.
Al-Mansouri, a Shiite, received death threats nearly a year ago when he resided with his family in Baghdad, where sectarian violence has intensified.

30 July - Iraq - Riyad Muhammad Ali
Ali, a reporter for the weekly Talafar al-Yawm, was shot by unidentified assailants in Mosul’s Wadi Aqab area. One local source said he believes Ali was targeted because he was both a Shiite and a journalist. Sectarian violence in Talafar is intense, and Ali was a well-known reporter working for one of the few major local papers in the town.

31 July - Philippines - Prudencio "Sonny" Melendres
Prudencio Melendres, a photojournalist for the daily tabloid Tanod was shot dead on 31 July in front of his house, in the capital city of Manilla. According to reports, as he was leaving his house, three gunmen approached Melendres. One of them shot him in the back and in the abdomen. He died instantly. He was also the cousin of Alberto Orsolino, a photographer for the tabloid Saksi, who was murdered in May, in what is suspected to have been a revenge killing.

31 July - Iraq - Abdul Wahab Abdul Razeq Ahmad Al-Qaisie
Abdul Wahab Abdul Razeq Ahmad Al-Qaisie was found dead 10 days after he was abducted by masked militiamen in the New Baghdad district.
He was the editor-in-chief of Iraqi Magazine Kol al-Dounia and had worked as a freelancer for European newspapers for the past 40 years.

AUGUST 7 August - Iraq - Mohammad Abbas Al Hamad Unidentified gunmen shot Mohammad, 28, an editor for the Shiite-owned newspaper Al-Bayinnah Al-Jadida, as he left his home in the Adil section of western Baghdad to go to work early the morning of August 7. Mohammad was highly critical of politicians and Iraqi officials regardless of sect or affiliation. The journalist had received several death threats because he worked for the paper, local journalists said. 7 August - Iraq - Ismail Amin Ali The body of freelance journalist Ali, 30, was discovered late evening by police in the eastern section of Baghdad known as al-Sadr city. His body was riddled with bullets, and Iraqi police said they found signs of torture. The journalist was abducted while he was at a gas station in al-Shaab neighborhood of Baghdad two weeks ago. The kidnappers had demanded ransom, but his family was unable to pay. Ali, a well-known Sunni columnist for several Baghdad-based papers, including Al-Sabah and Al-Qarar, may have been targeted because he was highly critical of the Shiite-dominated security forces. 9 August - Colombia - Milton Fabián Sánchez Two unknown gunmen on motorcycles shot journalist Milton Fabián Sánchez, 37, in the industrial city of Yumbo, south of the country. At about 10:30 pm, Sanchez working for Yumbo Estéreo radio station was intercepted by unidentified armed men when he was heading home. Sanchez was shot twice and taken to La Buena Esperanza Hospital of Yumbo. He was later transferred to Hospital Universitario del Valle and passed away at midnight. 9 August - Mexico - Enrique Perea Quintanilla The body of Enrique Perea Quintanilla, a longtime police reporter who became editor of a crime magazine, was found at 2 p.m. on the side of a road about 9 miles (15 kilometers) south of Chihuahua. Perea was shot once in the head and once in the back with a .45-caliber gun. Perea was editor of a monthly magazine, Dos Caras, Una Verdad (Two Sides, One Truth), which specialized in reporting on closed murder cases and local drug trafficking. He had worked for 20 years as a police reporter for the dailies El Heraldo and El Diario until becoming the magazine’s editor in 2005. The state prosecutor’s office believes the murder is the work of organized crime. While the motive was not immediately clear, Perea’s journalism was one of the investigation’s main leads. 13 August - Philippines - Hazel Recheta 13 August - Philippines - Arnel Guiao 13 August - Philippines - Ismael Cabugayan ABC-5 reporter Hazel Recheta and cameramen Arnel Guiao and Ismael Cabugayan died in a car accident in Pamplona, Camarines Sur on their way back to Manila from coverage of Mayon Volcano's activity. 21 August - Sri Lanka - Sinnathamby Sivamaharajah A Tamil newspaper editor and former member of parliament was killed outside his home on the besieged Jaffna Peninsula late Sunday, international and local media reported. Sinnathamby Sivamaharajah, managing director of the Tamil-language Namathu Eelanadu newspaper, was shot dead in Vellippalai. Police are investigating the murder, according to news reports. The motive for the killing is unclear. 22 August - Colombia - Atilano Segundo Perez Barrios Atilano Segundo Pérez Barrios, 52, was killed outside his home in Los Alpes neighborhood by unknown gunmen on motorcycles in the city of Cartagena. Four years ago, Pérez founded an informative program for Radio Vigía de Todelar: "El Diario de Marialabaja" (Marialabaja Daily). On the program, Pérez discussed different events and information regarding the municipality located in Montes de María region, center of the department of Bolivar. The radio program was well known for the denouncements of corruption including specific names disclosed on the air. On his last programme, Pérez discussed the developing influence of paramilitary groups in different establishments in Marialabaja. He pointed out these illegal groups sponsored some candidates running for mayor. 22 August - India - Hitendra Prasad A weekly news paper editor was killed by some miscreants at Manipal on Monday, midnight. Hitendra Prasad (38) was the Publisher\Editor of Hai Maruta Newspaper of Udupi district. This newspaper was publishing news from Udupi and Mangalore districts. According to the police, he went to Manipal for reporting the protest against a live band club, while he was attacked by the miscreants. It is learnt that, his wife was sitting in the car in the front seat and witnessed the attack by the mob. The body was on the crime spot for more than half an hour and at that time Prasad was seriously injured. Later the Manipal police took him to KMC hospital where the victim died at 12.30 pm mid night. 23 August - Venezuela - Jesús Flores Rojas Jesús Flores Rojas, co-director of the daily paper Región, in the northwestern province of Anzoátegui, was stopped in his car by a gunman in El Tigre on 23 August and was prepared to hand over the car to him, but the gunman refused the offer and shot him in the head eight times before escaping in a waiting vehicle. The journalist’s daughter, who was not harmed, said her father had often criticised the region’s politicians in print. He had not had any death threats, but since nothing was stolen in the attack, officials speculated it was an act of revenge. Provincial governor Tarek William Saab paid tribute to Flores, who was widely respected, and ordered an investigation. Nine agents were assigned to the police enquiry. SEPTEMBER 6 September - Sudan - Mohamed Taha The beheaded body of Sudanese newspaper editor, Mohamed Taha, has been found on the outskirts of the capital, Khartoum. Mohammed Taha ran the al-Wifaq paper and was taken from his home on Tuesday night by an unknown group of armed men. Last year, he was put on trial for blasphemy after his pro-government paper reprinted an article questioning the parentage of the prophet Muhammad. The charges were later dropped but if convicted of blasphemy under Sharia law, he could have been put to death. In May last year, thousands of people demonstrated outside a courtroom in central Khartoum calling for Mr Taha to be put to death. After several emotionally charged days the case was adjourned and later quietly dropped. 6 September - Cuba - Ignacio Insua Penville Ignacio Insua Penville (57 years old), photographer, died after a car accident on the Main Highway close to Gaspar. The photographer, who worked for Reuters, was still alive when he arrived at the hospital in Morón. He died there despite all the medical cares. Insua was following the Ernesto hurricane along the eastern province of the island. 9 September - Iraq - Abdel Karim Al-Roubai Abdel Karim al-Rubai, 40, a design editor for Al-Sabah, was shot Saturday morning while traveling to work in the eastern Baghdad neighborhood known as Camp Sara by several gunmen. The driver of the car was seriously wounded. Al-Sabah reported two weeks ago that it had received a death threat via e-mail against al-Rubai and his family signed by the military wing of the Mujahedeen Council, an Al-Qaeda affiliate in Iraq. According to the e-mail, the group was angered by the editor’s accusation that they were behind a car bomb attack on Al-Sabah on August 27, which killed a guard and an unidentified man. 11 September - Guatemala - Eduardo Maas Radio reporter and human rights activist, Eduardo Maas, was found shot to death in his car, police said, the latest in a wave of attacks and death threats against journalists in the country. Eduardo Maas, 58, was found dead from multiple gunshot wounds in the central town of Coban, said local police investigating his murder. During the Central American country's 1960-1996 civil war, reporters were a target of security forces and death squads. Since peace talks ended the conflict, journalists have faced dangers from organised crime groups and drug gangs. Patricia Gomez, news editor at national radio station Radio Punto, where Maas worked, said colleagues and family members were not aware he had received threats related to his work. Last month, a radio reporter was shot in the face during a botched assassination attempt by motorcycle gunmen in Guatemala City, and four journalists in the nearby town of Antigua received death threats after reporting on corruption. 12 September - Iraq - Hadi Anawi al-Joubouri Hadi Anawi al-Joubouri, journalist and representative of the Iraqi Journalists Syndicate for the eastern province of Diyala, was ambushed on a road north of Baghdad. His body was found riddled with bullets. 13 September - Iraq - Safaa Ismail Inad Safaa Ismail Inad, a photographer at al-Watan Newspaper, was shot in the head near Sadr city in eastern Baghdad. Inad was killed by gunmen who entered a photo print shop in Baghdad, asked for him by name, and shot him. 14 September - Turkmenistan - Ogulsapar Muradova Family members say they were notified by security officials of the death in custody of RFE/RL [US Government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty] Turkmen Service correspondent Ogulsapar Muradova. One of Muradova's relatives in Ashgabat, who did not want to be named for safety reasons, said security officials contacted family members and took them to the morgue to identify the body. However, the relative said Muradova's family refused to sign a discharge form and left. The Turkmen Helsinki Foundation (THF) quotes Muradova's children as saying the body has marks on the neck and has a "large wound" on the head. The time and circumstances of Muradova's death are unclear. It is also not known in which prison she was held. Muradova was detained in mid-June along with several human rights activists. Authorities gave no reason for the arrests at the time. 14 September - India (Kashmir) - Shabir Ahmad Dar The Police on Thursday recovered the body of a photographer whose head had been chopped off after being abducted by militants in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir. “The head of Shabir Ahmad Dar was recovered from saffron fields in Chandhara area this morning, while the body was found from Kruenchh village, about a kilometre away,” the sources said. Dar, a resident of Hathiwara village, was abducted on Wednesday night. 14 September - Bangladesh - Bellal Hossain Dafadar Bellal Hossain Dafadar, correspondent of the Khulna-based daily newspaper Janabani, died in hospital after being attacked and stabbed by up to five assailants on 14 September. According to local reports, Bellal Hossain Dafadar, 38, was returning home on a bicycle from a local bazaar at around 7 p.m. when his assailants stopped him at Pinchhlapole and stabbed him, leaving him critically injured. 14 September - Pakistan - Maqbool Hussain Siyal Maqbool Hussain Siyal, a senior journalist and a district correspondent for the Online News Network, was shot dead on 14 September in the city of Dera Ismail Khan, in north-western Pakistan, an area known for sectarian violence. According to reports, Siyal was on his way to meet Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians leader Nawab Azek, when he was shot in the head by two unidentified gunmen on bicycle. As he was being rushed to nearby hospital, the journalist suffered a serious haemorrhage and died. 18 September - Iraq - Ahmed Riyadh al-Karbouli Ahmed Riyadh al-Karbouli, a correspondent for Baghdad TV, was shot by six gunmen in two Opel cars as the reporter/cameraman chatted with friends after midday prayers outside a mosque in the town of Ramadi. Al-Karbouli, 25, had received numerous death threats from insurgents over the past four months warning him to leave the satellite channel. Baghdad TV is owned by the Iraqi Islamic Party, a major Sunni political group in the country. The party joined the U.S.-backed Iraqi government earlier this year. Al-Karbouli worked at Baghdad TV for two years covering security and the plight of the residents of Ramadi. His features offended some insurgents in Ramadi who felt he was criticizing them. A month ago, gunmen stormed into his house and threatened him in front of his family. 23 September - Nepal - Hem Bhandari 23 September - Nepal - Sunil Singh A World Wildlife Fund chartered helicopter reportedly crashed in bad weather and all 24 passengers including NTV journalist Hem Bhandari and NTV cameraman Sunil Singh were killed. 25 September - Dominican Republic - Facundo Labata Facundo Labata, radio journalist, was shot by unidentified men while he was playing domino with friends in Santo Domingo. He was immediately transported to a hospital but he was already dead. The journalist's last reports were on crimminality and drug trafficking in the area where the journalist lived. Labata, 54 years old, was correspondent for several radio stations and a freelance journalist. OCTOBER 7 October - Russia - Anna Politkovskaya Anna Politkovskaya was found shot to death in the elevator of her apartment building in Moscow, a pistol and four bullets were found in the elevator. Politkovskaya, special correspondent for the independent Moscow newspaper Novaya Gazeta, was well known for her investigative reports on human rights abuses by the Russian military in Chechnya. In seven years covering the second Chechen war, Politkovskaya’s reporting repeatedly drew the wrath of Russian authorities. She was threatened, jailed, forced into exile, and poisoned during her career. Igor Korolkov, a colleague, told the Regnum news Web site that Politkovskaya had been reporting on alleged torture in Chechnya for a coming story. 7 October - Afghanistan - Karen Fischer 7 October - Afghanistan - Christian Struwe Karen Fischer, 30, and Christian Struwe, 38, worked for international broadcaster Deutsche Welle. The pair were shot in the early hours of Saturday while en route from Baghlan province to Bamiyan province in the north of the country. They were killed in their tent, and were apparently in Afghanistan working on a documentary. They were shot dead with AK-47s. 9 October - Cameroon - Mathieu Kisito Ngalamou The correspondent in Western Cameroon of the private newspaper La Nouvelle Expression Mathieu Kisito Ngalamou died on 9 October in a traffic accident on the road Yaoundé-Baffousam. Kisito was also working with the online sport newspaper Camfoot.com. He was coming from an assignment for the football game between Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea in Yaoundé. According to sources the accident occurred when a car wanted to overtake the one the journalist was in. 10 October - Iraq - Azad Muhammad Hussein The body of Azad Muhammad Hussein was identified in the Baghdad morgue on 10 October, a week after he had been kidnapped by unidentified gunmen. The Journalistic Freedoms Observatory, an Iraqi press freedom organization, said the body of the reporter for the Iraqi Islamic Party-owned Radio Dar Al-Salam, showed evident signs of torture. The journalist was kidnapped from al-Shaab neighborhood in northern Baghdad on October 3. It was not immediately clear how or when Hussein’s body arrived at the morgue. 12 October - Iraq - Thaker al-Shouwili 12 October - Iraq - Ahmad Sha’ban 12 October - Iraq - Hussein Ali The cold-blooded execution by masked gunmen of 11 employees of a fledgling satellite TV channel in Baghdad on 12 October was the deadliest single assault on the press in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003. Gunmen in at least five vehicles drove up to Al-Shaabiya television in the eastern district of Zayouna around 7 a.m., Reuters reported. They burst into the station’s offices and executed 11 people and wounded two. Al-Shaabiya has not yet gone on the air and has only run test transmissions. Executive manager Hassan Kamil told Reuters that the station had no political agenda and that the staff had been a mix of Sunnis, Shiites, and Kurds. The station had not been threatened previously. According to news reports, the channel still aims to launch after the end of the Muslim month of Ramadan in late October. Kamil said some of the gunmen wore police uniforms, and all were masked. According to news reports the gunmen’s cars resembled police vehicles. A local press freedom group, The Journalistic Freedoms Observatory, named the dead as chairman and general manager Abdul-Rahim Nasrallah al-Shimari and his bodyguard, Ali Jabber; deputy general manager Noufel al-Shimari; presenters Thaker al-Shouwili and Ahmad Sha’ban; administrative manager Sami Nasrallah al-Shimari; video mixer Hussein Ali; and three guards identified only by their first names: Maher, Ahmad and Hassan. The station’s generator operator, whose name was not available, was also killed. A source at Al-Shaabiya confirmed the names. Program manager Mushtak al-Ma’mouri and news chief Muhammad Kathem were taken to the hospital with multiple gunshot wounds. 12 October - Iraq - Mohammed Abdul Rahman Radio announcer Mohammed Abdul Rahman of Radio Dijala was found dead on 12 October. He was kidnapped in mid-September in the western Baghdad neighbourhood of Mansour, where he had moved after receiving threats. 14 October - Iraq - Raed Qais Al Shammari Raed Qais, a correspondent for Sout Al-Iraq (Voice of Iraq) radio was killed instantly when militants fired at his car. The attack happened before the Muslim fast-break at sunset. 16 October - Colombia - Jose Bonilla Romero Jose Bonilla Romero was shot dead in Cali (west). The journalist was at some friends home when unknown men stormed and shot him killing him immediately. Bonilla is the founder of the association of foreign correspondents in Bogota. He also worked as a PR person. 16 October - Iraq - Ali Halil Ali halil was murdered by gunmen in the Baghdad district of Al Hurriye. 26 October - Iraq - Saed Mahdi Shalash Saed Mahdi Shalash and his wife were shot and killed by unidentified gunmen in an attack on their home. Shalash worked for the Rayat Al Arab newspaper. He had a 20-year career as a journalist working for the Iraqi News Agency. He left the agency in 2003. 28 October - Mexico - William Bradley Roland William Bradley Roland, also known as Brad Will, 36, a documentary filmmaker and reporter for Indymedia New York in Mexico, Bolivia and Brazil, died of a gunshot to the chest when pro-government attackers opened fire on a barricade in the neighborhood of Santa Lucia El Camino, on the outskirts of Oaxaca, Mexico. He died with his video camera in his hands. 29 October - Iraq - Sherin Hamid An Iraqi state television presenter and her driver were found dead in Baghdad, a day after they were abducted by unknown gunmen. Sherin Hamid had hosted programmes on the al-Iraqiya station aimed at Iraq's Kurdish and Christian minorities, said Aziz Rahim, an al-Iraqiya spokesman. These programmes could have made Hamid a target of either Sunni insurgents or Shia militias. The two bodies were found in the Haifa Street district close to where they had been abducted, said police lieutenant Maithem Abdel-Razaq. 31 October - Iraq - Abdelmajid Isma'il Khalil Abdelmajid Isma’il Khalil, a sixty seven year old freelance journalist who worked for a number of Iraqi papers was discovered dead by police on 31, October. He had been kidnapped by unidentified gunmen on 18, October in eastern Baghdad. The Committee to Protect Journalists is currently investigating whether Khalil’s death is related to his work as a journalist. NOVEMBER 1 November - Iraq - Ahmed Al-Rasheed Ahmed Al-Rasheed, 29 years, a former reporter of Addyar satellite channel and employed as a reporter by Al-Sharqia television channel recently, was shot dead by unknown militants late on Friday. 1 November - Pakistan - Mohammad Ismail Mohammad Ismail, a senior journalist and bureau chief of Pakistan Press International (PPI), was attacked by unknown assailants in Islamabad on November 1. Ismail's body was found in the early hours of the morning, with his head completely smashed open, having been struck with a hard and blunt object. 2 November - Iraq - Qussai Abass Qussai Abbas, a journalist writing for Tariq Al Shaab, a newspaper affiliated with the Communist party, was shot to death on 2, November in Baghdad. Mr. Abbas was on his way to work, and his driver was also killed in the attack. 10 November - Mexico - Misael Tamayo Hernandez Misael Tamayo Hernandez, editor of El Despertar de la Costa, was found early Friday nearly naked, with his hands tied behind his back, in a room at the Venus Motel, Zihuatanejo police officials said. He was lying on a bed, covered only with a sheet, and investigators found three puncture marks on his body, one in his right hand and two others in a forearm. The cause of death was a heart attack, forensic investigators said. Tamayo Hernandez, who was well-respected in the local journalism community, published a story on Thursday alleging that city officials gave illegal discounts on water services to individuals and businesses. The same edition also contained stories on organized crime. 13 November - Iraq - Mohammed Al-Ban Gunmen shot dead a cameraman working for a private Iraqi television station in the main northern city of Mosul. The assassins killed Mohammed al-Ban, an employee of Sharqiya, a Sunni-owned satellite channel which is the main competitor of state-run Iraqiya television, outside his home in the central Al-Nur neighbourhood. 15 November - Iraq - Fadia Mohammed Abid Gunmen killed on Wednesday a female Iraqi journalist working for a local daily and her driver in the northern city of Mosul, police said. Colonel Abdel Karim al-Juburi said gunmen in another car killed Fadia Mohammed Abid and her driver in Tahrir neighbourhood of east Mosul. "The two were killed while on the way to the office," he said. Abid worked for Al-Masar, an independent newspaper. 15 November - Iraq - Luma Al-Karkhi Luma Al-Karkhi was shot and killed on her way to work. She worked for the indpendent weekly Al-Dustor. 16 November - Mexico - José Manuel Nava Sánchez Jose Manuel Nava Sánchez, 53, had been the Washington, DC, correspondent of the Mexican daily newspaper Excélsior for 22 years. His body was found in his apartment in Mexico City by his maid. He had been stabbed 12 times. According to the police, the murder occurred early in the morning. They reported that a laptop computer and other belongings of his were missing. Neighbors said they had heard sounds of an argument coming from his apartment. Nava Sánchez, who was Excélsior's editor from 2002 to 2005, on November 6 launched a book he had written titled "Excélsior, el asalto final" (Excélsior, The Final Round), in which he criticizes the sale of the newspaper, saying it had been done in conditions of "extreme irregularity." 20 November - Iraq - Waleed Hassan One of Iraq's best known satirists and broadcasters was gunned down on his way to work. Waleed Hassan's "Caricature" sketch show was an unmissable part of weekend Fridays for Iraqis seeking a release in laughter from the blood and chaos around them. Hassan poked fun at sectarian violence, bickering politicians, power blackouts and all aspects of the turmoil that is daily life in Iraq. He was found in west Baghdad with three bullet wounds to the head, said the Sharkiya channel. Hassan was a director of the station and also produced a political interview show for it. 21 November - Mexico - Roberto Marcos Garcia Roberto Marcos Garcia, 50, chief reporter for the weekly Testimonio magazine in the port city of Veracruz, was shot four times along a highway on the city's northeast outskirts. Garcia had written investigative reports on crimes ranging from drug trafficking and auto theft, as well as the alleged corruption of local officials. The magazine was distributed throughout the Gulf coast state of Veracruz. 21 November - Iraq - Ra'ad Jafar Hamadi Ra'ad Jafar Hamadi, a journalist working for the al-Sabah newspaper, was killed in the al-Washash neighbourhood (Baghdad) by unknown gunmen. 26 November - Colombia - Marino Pérez Murcia Marino was killed on 26 November in Bogotá, under unknown circumstances. He was shot in the head and abandoned in a dark street where his body was found minutes after by habitants of Galerías neighborhood. Pérez Murcia, correspondent for Radio Habana, was also a sporadic collaborator for Le Monde daily and worked on news reports for a German television channel. He had worked as correspondent for Colombian radio networks Caracol and Todelar and covered the Persian Gulf War. According to statements made by his nephew and journalist Harold Pérez to Todelar, the journalist was making advances and contacts for the release of three North American military advisors abducted by FARC guerrilla on February 2003, when their aircraft was gunned down in the Amazon department of Caquetá. "He was focused on getting an exclusive interview with guerrilla commander Simón Trinidad, imprisoned in the United States and used some contacts he had in the FBI to get it", they explained. 30 November - Mexico - Adolfo Sanchez Guzman Police found the bullet-ridden bodies of missing journalist Adolfo Sanchez Guzman and another man, in what appeared to be the second killing of a reporter in 10 days in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz. Investigative police said they discovered the body of Sanchez Guzman, 32, on Thursday near Ciudad Mendoza, 75 miles (120 kilometers) west of the state capital, not far from where his car was found abandoned on Tuesday night. Veracruz Attorney General Emeterio Lopez said Sanchez Guzman had been shot twice in the back of the head at close range; police said the position of the body suggested he may have been kneeling. The second man, identified as a friend of Guzman named Cesar Martinez Lopez, was also apparently shot to death, though an icepick was found near his body. Autopsies were being carried out on both men, and no cause of death had yet been formally determined. It was unclear whether Sanchez Guzman's death was linked to his work. Sanchez Guzman was in negotiations to renew his contract with his employer, the Veracruz affiliate of the Televisa television network, and also reported for a radio station and an Internet news site. DECEMBER 04 December - Iraq - Nabil Ibrahim al-Dulaimi Nabil Ibrahim al-Dulaimi, an iraqi journalist, was walking from his home in the Washhash neighborhood of northwest Baghdad to Radio Dijla (Tigris) when he was shot dead. 07 December - Philippines - Ponciano Grande Ponciano Grande, a broadcaster and former columnist from Nueva Ecija, was shot and killed by two assailants. Grande was reportedly shot five times with a .45 calibre pistol just metres from his wife, Annie Liwag-Grande, while visiting his farm in Barangay, Sta. Arcadia, Cabantuan City. The couple had jointly hosted a program on radio station dwJJ in Nueva Ecija, and Grande had previously written for the local weeklies The Recorder and the Nueva Ecija Times. 12 December - Iraq - Aswan Ahmed Lutfallah Aswan Ahmed Lutfallah, 35, an Iraqi cameraman for US-based Associated Press Television Network (APTN) was shot dead in the northern city of Mosul. He was having his car repaired in an industrial area in the eastern part of the city when insurgents and police began fighting nearby and he rushed to cover the clash. Insurgents spotted him filming, approached him and shot him to death. Aswan leaves a wife and two children. He worked for APTN in Mosul since 2005. 16 December - Tanzania - Theresia Nyantori A small plane crashed through the roof of a house in northern Tanzania on 16 December, killing one passenger and injuring six others, including a Tanzanian Cabinet minister, police said. The plane went down in northern Tanzania's Mbeya region, about 560 miles from Dar es Salaam, just minutes after taking off, Regional Police Commander Suleiman Kova said. Theresia Nyantori, a photographer working with the government news agency, was killed on impact, police said. Juma Akukweti, the minister for emergency matters, was undergoing surgery for burns. 19 December - United States of America - Gordon Davis The television cameraman had just finished covering a strip mall fire a little after 2:30 in the morning and was returning to his vehicle when he was hit by a car. The driver stopped, summoned help and the photographer was taken to a hospital where he died a short time later. He had long worked the overnight shift to give him more daytime hours with his wife and 14-year-old daughter. 20 December - Philippines - Andres "Andy" Acosta Acosta was stabbed to death Thursday morning in Batac, Ilocos Norte. Witnesses saw Acosta on board a motorcycle and traveling fast before skidding to a halt and collapsing. He died at the Marciano Marcos Memorial Hospital in Batac. Acosta worked for Laoag radio station DZJC Aksyon Radyo (Action Radio), an affiliate of the Manila Broadcasting Company (MBC). It is the same station where Roger Mariano, a broadcaster killed on July 31, 2004, worked. The killing may be related to Acosta’s work, adding that the broadcaster has been receiving death threats. 22 December - Nigeria - Godwin Agbroko Agbroko was found dead at the wheel of his car on the road to the Daleko bridge in the Lagos district of Isolo at around 10 p.m. (local time) on 22 December, shortly after he left his office in the district of Apapa. He had been shot in the throat. The window of the driver's door, which was locked shut, was shattered. His safety-belt was still fastened. The air-conditioning and radio were still on. None of his belongings had been taken. Three policemen and two passers-by were shot dead in the same area that night. Although the police think he was shot in the course of an attempted hold-up, his son, Tobor Agbroko, said the Nigerian press and his family suspected a targeted murder. 29 December - Iraq - Akil Sarhan Akil Sarhan, of sports TV channel al-Riyadia (member of the Iraqi media Network) was killed when his car was attacked by an armed group as he drove to work. top