MEDIA STAFF KILLED
JANUARY
13 January - Iraq - Unknown
13 January - Iraq - Unknown
Two employees of Al Sabah newspaper (names have not been revealed), were kidnapped from the newspaper’s offices in Baghdad on 12 January and were found with their throats cut the next day near Al Nouman hospital.
16 January - Iraq - Unknown
A security guard’s body was found on the Al Sabah newspaper’s roof on 16 January. The newspaper, which did not want to give out his name, said he was probably shot from a distance with a hunting rifle while patrolling the building’s roof.
FEBRUARY
2 February - Benin - Clement Ahouitonon
2 February - Benin - Augustin Gbodui
Three workers of the national television station died in a car accident in Benin on 2 February 2007. The crew belonging to the national television station of Benin, Office de radio et télévision du Bénin (Ortb), was composed of Clément Ahouitonon, sound engineer, Jérôme Azagoun, journalist and Augustin Gbodui, driver. They were coming back from an assignment in N’Dali in the Nothern region of Benin when their car crashed into a truck parked on the side of the road.
7 February - Iraq - Nabras Mohammed Hadi
7 February - Iraq - Azhar Abdullah Al-Maliki
7 February - Iraq - Sabah Salman
Three guards working for the government funded al-Iraqiya TV were killed by fire of foreign security guards in central Baghdad, a media source said. Foreign security guards accompanying a delegation shot and killed three guards working for al-Iraqiya TV, the source told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI). The incident occurred in al-Salihiya in central Baghdad near the Iraqiya TV headquarters, he added. "The foreign security guards mistakenly suspected al-Iraqiya guards as gunmen intending to attack the delegation visiting the nearby justice ministry building," the source said. He added "the Iraqiya TV guards were securing the area around their headquarters when the incident took place." The two buildings are located opposite to each other in al-Salihiya in central Baghdad. The source said "the TV head demanded the authorities to investigate the killing incident."
MARCH
16 March - Afghanistan - Sayed Agha
Daniele Mastrogiacomo, working for an Italian newspaper La Repubblica, was kidnapped by the Taliban in Helmand on March 5 along with his driver and his interpreter.
The driver, Sayed Agha, who was accused of being a spy for foreign troops in this country, was reportedly killed by Taliban militants.
MAY
3 May - Iraq - Adel al-Badri
3 May - Iraq - Unknown
Gunmen attacked a local radio station in west Baghdad killing two employees and halting transmission.
Dozens of gunmen assaulted the independent Radio Dijla in the Jamia neighbourhood on Thursday and shot four technicians, two of them fatally.
The electric generator operator and security guard Adel al-Badri were shot dead outside the building, before the gunmen entered the premises and sprayed the area with gunfire, wounding two other technicians before leaving.
As they left, the gunmen fired a rocket propelled grenade into the building seriously damaging the equipment and cutting transmission.
Acting station director Karim Yussef told the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) that the attack had been preceded by an early morning kidnapping attempt against several radio employees.
Located in the mostly Sunni western half of the city, an area rife with insurgents, Radio Dijla has been attacked several times. News editor Nabil Ibrahim al-Dulaimi was murdered in December. Several broadcasters and employees of the station have been kidnapped.
9 May - Iraq - Nibras Razzaq
The driver, Nibras Razzaq, of three Iraqi print journalists was killed along his colleagues in a drive-by shooting near the northern oil-rich city of Kirkuk. They were working for the independent Raad media company, which publishes several weekly newspapers and monthly magazines that deal with politics, education and arts.
Their attackers, armed with machine guns, opened fire as they drove past a vehicle carrying the journalists in the Rashad area south-west of Kirkuk.
9 May - India - G. Gopinath
9 May - India - Vinod Kumar
9 May - India - K. Muthuramalingam
Two computer engineers and a security personnel of Tamil newspaper Dinakaran were killed after supporters of DMK leader M K Azhagiri attacked the daily’s office and set it on fire.
G. Gopinath and Vinod Kumar, the two computer engineers, were trapped inside the room when the attackers locked it after hurling the bombs. They were asphyxiated.
The body of the security personnel, K. Muthuramalingam was found in the UPS room of the office. He had also suffocated to death.
13 May - Palestine - Mohammad Matar Abdo
Gunmen wearing presidential guard uniforms stopped a taxi, carrying Suleiman Abdul-Rahim al-Ashi, 25, an economics editor for the Hamas-affiliated daily Palestine, and Mohammad Matar Abdo, 25, a manager responsible for distribution and civic relations, in a high-security area southwest of Gaza City that is controlled by Fatah.
News accounts vary on the ensuing events; the two men were beaten before being shot on a public street. Al-Ashi died at the scene, while Abdo was taken to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City where he died the next day.
Al-Ashi and Abdo were scheduled to meet with economic and tourism organizations in Gaza that afternoon. The fledgling Palestine newspaper was launched early this May.
The murders come amid clashes in the coastal strip over the previous 24 hours. The Palestinian Health Ministry reported that at least six people died and another 52 wounded in fighting between rival Fatah and Hamas militias.
17 May - Iraq - Saif Laith Yousuf
Saif Laith Yousuf, 26, a soundman working for the US network ABC was killed when the car he was travelling in was attacked. The soundman was returning home from work along with its colleague, Alaa Uldeen Aziz.
Saif Laith Yousuf leaves behind his fiancee, his mother and brothers and sisters.
JULY
11 July - Iraq - Unknown
An Iraqi translator for Reuters was shot to death by gunmen, an apparent victim of sectarian death squads.
The London-based news agency did not identify the translator at the request of relatives, apparently to avoid publicizing the family's link to the company.
The 30-year-old translator was killed Wednesday while driving with two of his brothers in southeast Baghdad, an area where Shiite and Sunni militants operate.
The staffer usually took Thursday and Friday off, so Reuters became concerned when he did not come to work on Saturday, it said. He had been working for the agency since March and was married with two young daughters, it said.
12 July - Iraq - Saeed Chmagh
Driver Saeed Chmagh, 40, working for Reuters in Iraq was killed along with his photographer in eastern Baghdad at a time when clashes had been taking place between U.S. forces and militants in the area.
The cause of his death is unclear. Witnesses spoke of an explosion in the area. Iraqi police said either a U.S. air strike or a mortar attack had occurred.
Chmagh was married with four children.
AUGUST
27 August - Iraq - Anwar Abbas Lafta
A translator for CBS News in Iraq has been found dead after being abducted from his home by eight to 10 armed men a week ago, CBS said on Monday.
Anwar Abbas Lafta, an Iraqi who had worked for CBS News for 10 months, was abducted on the evening of August 20 by men who entered his home, fought with him and his brother and shot his sister in the arm, CBS said in a statement.
His family received two ransom calls during the week, and then a cousin received a call from police that a body had been found on the north side of Sadr City, the large Shi'ite neighbourhood in Baghdad. The cousin identified the body, CBS said.
Abbas, who was in his early 50s and was not married, had worked as a translator for the U.S. military in Iraq for about three years before joining CBS News. He was buried on Monday in the southern Iraqi city of Najaf, CBS said.
OCTOBER
8 October - Mexico - Mateo Cortés Martínez
8 October - Mexico - Agustín López Nolasco
8 October - Mexico - Flor Vásquez López
Three media workers for the Oaxaca-based daily El Imparcial del Istmo were shot and killed while driving in the southern state of Oaxaca in a vehicle bearing the paper’s logo.
At 1:15 p.m., an Equinox SUV with tinted windows chased and then blocked an El Imparcial del Istmo truck along a highway connecting the cities of Salina Cruz and Tehuantepec, according to Mexican press reports. According to El Imparcial del Istmo, unidentified individuals got out of the car, and shot the van’s driver Mateo Cortés Martínez and delivery workers Agustín López Nolasco and Flor Vásquez López at close range.
According to Mexican press reports, El Imparcial del Istmo’s Regional Director Gonzalo Domínguez received an anonymous telephone call later that afternoon stating he was “next.” Luis David Quintana, the daily’s deputy director, told local reporters that the newspaper had received several threatening e-mail messages and letters in the last month warning that the paper should tone down its coverage of local drug trafficking gangs.
22 October - Iraq - Unknown
During the kidnapping of the U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) correspondent, her driver was shot and his body dumped in the street.
NOVEMBER
27 November - Sri Lanka - Isaivizhi Chempiyan
27 November - Sri Lanka - Suresh Linbiyo
27 November - Sri Lanka - T. Tharmalingam
Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) Kfir bombers Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. attacked the Voice of Tigers (VoT) broadcast station located at 55th Mile Post, 3.5 km south of Ki'linochchi. Three editorial staff workers at the station and eight civilians, residents and travelers near the station were killed in the attack. 15 civilians, including four editorial staff, wounded in the attack were admitted to Ki'linochchi hospital. The radio, which was scheduled to broadcast LTTE leader's annual policy address, continued its service from a fallback facility, an official of the LTTE Political Division told TamilNet.
The three editorial staff killed in the attack were identified as Isaivizhi Chempiyan (also known as Subajini, a former Ozhiveechchu news presenter), Suresh Linbiyo, a technical desk worker and T. Tharmalingam.
Radio presenters K. Jenanai, 34, and Anparasi Rajkumar were wounded in the attack. Two other staff workers sustained minor injuries.
12 bombs have been dropped on the station.
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