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At least two men in a car parked next to João Miranda do Carmo’s house in Santo Antônio do Descoberto, a small town roughly 30 miles west of the capital, Brasilia, the night of July 24 and shouted his name, according to local news reports. When do Carmo appeared, they shot him seven times in…

Salaheddin was driving home from work in the northern city of Tikrit when a bomb attached to his car exploded, according to news reports. He died after being taken to a local hospital, news reports said. Salaheddin was a news anchor and political talk show host for Salaheddin Channel, a local TV broadcaster in Salaheddin…

Around 11 p.m., at least two masked gunmen burst into the offices of Radio Visión and shot Miranda multiple times in the back of the neck, a spokesman for the state prosecutor’s office told CPJ. News reports said he died at the scene. Miranda’s brother, José, a Radio Visión staffer, was present but unharmed. Miranda,…

Ilaria Alpi, an Italian journalist, and Krovatin, a Slovakian cameraman, both on assignment for the Italian state RAI-3 television station, were killed when men armed with machine guns opened fire on their pickup truck outside the Italian embassy.

Kayiranga, an editor for the opposition newspaper Kanguka, was thrown into the latrines at the home of his cousin in Muhima, Kigali, and killed. In 1993, Kayiranga had gone into hiding for several weeks after learning that state security agents were searching for him.