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to Muammar Qaddafi. A fourth journalist who was traveling with them, Anton Hammerl, was shot
and killed by Libyan forces when the group was seized.
Committee to Protect Journalists
Freelance photographer Anton Hammerl was killed in Libya
on April 5, 2011. Friends of Hammerl are
held on May 15 to support the family of freelance photographer Anton
Hammerl by the nonprofit Friends of Anton. Hammerl was shot and killed by
Afghanistan, just months before
his friend and fellow South African shooter Anton
Hammerl was shot and killed in combat in Libya. Underscoring the risks of
pour n'avoir pas tenu les autorités libyennes responsables dans l'affaire Anton Hammerl. En effet, les forces loyalistes à Kadhafi ont tué le photojournaliste sud-africain
for failing to hold Libyan officials accountable in the case of Anton Hammerl. Loyalist forces killed the South African photojournalist in April, but Libyan officials
who were killed by a mortar round; and South African
photographer Anton Hammerl, who was killed by government forces.
Media fatalities in the region in
Photojournalist
Anton Hammerl's body has not been returned to his family five months after
freed in
Libya were held since early April, when freelance photographer Anton
Hammerl also went missing. With the release of the journalists came the news
Libyan
government should immediately release the body of South African photographer
Anton Hammerl, at left, and investigate the role of the armed forces in his
