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Omotunde, editor of the African Concord, was abducted by two security agents as he was driving along a street in Ikeja, in mainland Lagos. The agents tied, gagged, and bundled him into their car. He was driven to an unknown location. At the end of the year, Omotunde was still being detained, reportedly in the…
Pun, sometimes referred to as Shaktiram Pun, a correspondent for the Nepalese-language daily Rajdhani, was abducted by Maoist rebels between November 16 and 20 in the midwestern district of Rukum, according to local journalists and the human rights group Informal Sector Service Center (INSEC). Pun was abducted along with six others following the arrests of…
Hussein, an Iraqi photographer for The Associated Press, was taken into custody by U.S. forces in Ramadi, capital of Iraq’s Anbar province, for “imperative reasons of security” on April 12, 2006, and held without charge or the disclosure of evidence of a crime. The U.S. military alleged that Hussein had ties to insurgents. “He has…
Three armed men abducted Bouabdallah, a reporter for the Arabic-language daily Al-Alam al-Siyassi, from his home in the Chevalier section of the capital, Algiers, late on April 12, 1997. According to Bouabdallah’s family, the men stormed into their home, and after they confirmed that the young man’s name was Aziz, they grabbed him, put his…
Bouselham, a correspondent with the government-controlled daily Horizons, was kidnapped in Hacine, in the Mascara district in Western Algeria on Oct. 29, 1994. Bouselham, who had been living in a tent since an earthquake destroyed his home in August, was abducted by a group of about 50 armed men. CPJ wrote to the Algerian government…
On May 16, 2019, reporter Francisco Romero Díaz was shot and killed in Playa del Carmen, a beachside resort in the southern Mexican state of Quintana Roo, according to news reports and a statement by the state attorney general’s office, which CPJ has reviewed. Romero left home in the early hours of May 16 after…
On October 15, 2013, Iszhak Ould Mokhtar, a Mauritanian reporter working for the Abu Dhabi-based broadcaster Sky News Arabia, disappeared along with Lebanese photographer Samir Kassab while they were reporting in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, according to his employer, a statement released by Kassab’s family, and the regional press freedom group Skeyes Center…
Farhad Hamo, a freelance reporter working for the Kurdish broadcaster Rudaw TV, was abducted along with freelance cameraman Massoud Aqeel on December 15, 2014, by members of the Islamic State militant group on a road between the northern Syrian cities of Qamishli and Al-Ya’rubiyah, according to Rudaw and CPJ reporting. In an interview with Rudaw…
The body of Rafael Murúa Manríquez, 34, was found on January 20, 2019, near an expressway approximately 25 miles north of Santa Rosalía, in the northern Mexican state of Baja California Sur, according to news reports. The Baja California Sur state prosecutor’s office released a statement to the press via WhatsApp on January 21, which said that…