Journalists Killed  |  Algeria

Lahcene Bensaadallah

El-Irshad

October 12, 1994, in Algiers, Algeria

Bensaadallah, director of El-Irshad, a publication affiliated with the moderate Islamist party Hamas, was shot and killed outside his home in Badr, a neighborhood in Algiers.


Medium: Print

Job: Editor

Beats Covered: Politics

Gender: Male

Local or Foreign: Local

Freelance: No

Type of Death: Murder

Suspected Source of Fire: Unknown Fire

Impunity: Yes

Taken Captive: No

Tortured: No

Threatened: No


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