MEDIA STAFF KILLED
JANUARY
07 January - Iraq - Alin Ghazi Jack
Alin Ghazi Jack, interpreter, was shot dead during the kidnapping of a US journalist in the Adl district of western Baghdad. The interpreter, an Iraqi Christian, was shot dead by the abductors.
The interpreter was able to tell soldiers that a US journalist was kidnapped before he died.
FEBRUARY
23 February - Iraq - Adnan Khairallah
Adnan Khairallah , a sound engineer working for Al-Arabiya Television disappeared along with two other colleagues after giving a last live dispatch on 22 February. Iraqi police confirmed that they were kidnapped and then assassinated in Samarra.
The police sources said that a person who was with them managed to escape from the gunmen.
The Al-Arabiya Television crew was covering the attack on the shrine of the two Shi'i imams, Ali al-Hadi and Al-Hasan al-Askari, north of Baghdad.
MARCH
11 March - Iraq - Anwar Turki
Amjad Hameed, a journalist for Iraqiya television, was attacked by gunmen who shot him in the head and chest while he was being driven to his job. His driver, Anwar Turki, died later in the hospital.
MAY
02 May - Sri Lanka - Ranjit Kumar
02 May - Sri Lanka - Suresh
At 6pm local time, two unidentified gunmen entered into the offices of the Tamil daily nationalist newspaper, Udyan, killing Ranjit Kumar, a machine operator and Suresh a marketing manager. Three journalists were badly injured in the attack, with two in critical condition.
The exact circumstances of the attack remain unknown, with the Sri Lankan government security forces denying any involvement in the killings.
07 May - Iraq - Mu'azzaz Ahmad Barud
The bodies of journalist Layth Mish'an al-Dulaymi and Mu'azzaz Ahmad Barud, a switchboard attendant, were found near the Al-Wihdah irrigation project in their hometown of Al-Mada'in, southeast of Baghdad. They were employed by the private Al-Nahrayn television channel and were first abducted by elements wearing Iraqi Police uniforms and riding in Police vehicles. Source cited eyewitnesses as saying that the two were heading for the city of Al-Mada'in when they were stopped by gunmen wearing Iraqi Police uniforms and led to an undisclosed location.
07 May - Iraq - Ismail Muhammad Khalaf
Ismail Muhammad Khalaf, a printshop worker, was killed in a car bomb attack in Baghdad on 7 May. The bomb exploded early in the morning targeting a police patrol and blew up near the offices of the state-run Al-Sabah newspaper.
JULY
22 July - Lebanon - Sleiman Chidia
The Israeli airforce struck at telecommunications antennae near Beirut and in northern Lebanon. The air strikes were above all targeted at LBC, whose broadcasts were interrupted. Air strikes at Terbol, in northern Lebanon, resulted in the broadcasts of LBC, Avenir TV and Al-Manar being cut in various parts of the country.
LBC technician Sleiman Chidia was killed during an air strike on the station’s installations in Satka.
27 July - Sri Lanka - Mariathas Manojanraj
Mariathas Manojanraj, 23, a distributor of Yarl Thinakural and Veerakesari, was killed in a claymore explosion on Rasa Road, near Nilavarai Deep well on his way from Atchuvely to Jaffna at 4:00 a.m. Thursday, sources in Jaffna said. Manojanraj was riding a motorbike to collect Thursday issues of the papers from the Jaffna Thinakkural office for distribution in Atchuvely when the explosion occurred, sources said.
The claymore mine was triggered by remote-control device and occurred in a isolated area in Navakeeri close to the Ellalan Community Center, sources said.
AUGUST
8 August - Guyana - Mark Maikoo
8 August - Guyana - Chitram Persaud
8 August - Guyana - Eon Wigman
8 August - Guyana - Richard Stuart
14 August - Guyana - Shazim Mohamed
Mark Maikoo, Chitram Persaud, Eon Wigman and Richard Stuart, print technicians for the newspaper Kaieteur News, were shot dead on 8 August by an armed gang in their newspaper’s printing press in Bagotstown, a suburb of the capital city of Georgetown. The gunmen reportedly obliged the men to lie face down on the ground before shooting them in the head. All four died instantly. According to reports, other people were seriously injured in this attack, including Shazim Mohamed who was reportedly rushed to hospital, where he later succumbed to his head injuries on 14 August. The motive for the attack is unknown.
15 August - Sri Lanka - Sathasivam Baskaram
Sathasivam Baskaram, a distributor for the Tamil newspaper Uthayan was reportedly shot dead in Jaffna while returning from marking deliveries. According to an IFJ affiliate, the Free Media Movement (FMM), Baskaram was delivering the paper outside of the curfew hours that have been operating in the area since August 11.
OCTOBER
2 October - Brazil - Osman De Oliveira Mello
2 October - Brazil - Francisco Alves De Oliveira
Osman De Oliveira Mello and Francisco Alves De Oliveira, employees of the Brazilian Radio Agency Radio Bras, were coming back from work in the Gol flight that crashed on Para State. They were inspecting a radio station in Tabatinga.
4 October - Iraq - Jassem Hamad Ibrahim
Jassem Hamad Ibrahim, a driver for the Iraqi state television channel Al-Iraqiya was shot by unidentified gunmen in Mosul. The assailants ambushed Ibrahim in the afternoon as he was running errands for the station. His body was found riddled with bullets.
Earlier that day, Ibrahim had driven several camera operators around Mosul to film footage. The slaying occurred about 30 minutes after Ibrahim dropped off the camera operators at the station. They later reported that they believed they had been followed during the assignment.
12 October - Iraq - Abdul-Rahim Nasrallah al-Shimari
12 October - Iraq - Ali Jabber
12 October - Iraq - Noufel al-Shimari
12 October - Iraq - Sami Nasrallah al-Shimari
12 October - Iraq - Maher
12 October - Iraq - Ahmad
12 October - Iraq - Hassan
12 October - Iraq - Unknown
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.
16 October - Russia - Anatoly Voronin
Anatoly Voronin was killed during the night in his apartment in central Moscow.
According to the main police directorate, "the death occurred as a result of numerous stab wounds".
The agency was told that "the body of the 55-year-old business manager showing signs of a violent death was found [in the apartment] in Bolshoy Kondratyevskiy Pereulok by his driver, who alerted law enforcement agencies".
Anatoliy Vladimirovich Voronin worked for ITAR-TASS since 1983.
29 October - Iraq - Annas Kassim Nejm
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.
NOVEMBER
2 November - Iraq - Unknown
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.
15 November - Iraq - Unknown
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.
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