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Unknown armed assailants on July 4 abducted Astamirov, a 34-year-old correspondent for Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency, in the southern Russian republic of Ingushetia, according to media reports. Astamirov, who is married and has two children, previously worked for Chechnya’s Grozny Television. He was based in Ingushetia’s capital, Nazran, and had worked for AFP for…
Kisembo, a 28 year-old medical student who was recruited by Agence France-Presse (AFP) to work as a fixer in the northeastern Ituri region, a notoriously dangerous and unstable area, was reported missing in Bunia, Ituri’s main town. The last person to report seeing Kisembo alive was Anthony Morland, an AFP journalist who was working with…
Kieffer, one of the few foreign investigative reporters still based in Ivory Coast, was last seen on April 16, according to local and international press reports. In the weeks prior to his disappearance, Kieffer received death threats, according to his family and friends, who fear that he has been killed. The journalist has both French…
Ekneligoda, a 50-year-old cartoonist and columnist for the news website Lanka e News was last seen by his family and colleagues in the suburbs of Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo on January 24, 2010, two days before the elections that gave incumbent President Mahinda Rajapaksa a sweeping victory, his wife Sandya Ekneligoda told CPJ. The journalist’s family has been repeatedly…
The daily newspaper Novedades Acapulco reported on June 9 that López, its news editor, had been abducted by a group of men two nights earlier. López’s supervisor, Armando Robles, told CPJ that when López did not arrive at the paper the day before, a group of reporters began to retrace his movements. The editor left…
Muayad Saloum, a reporter with the Syrian opposition channel Orient TV, went missing after militants from the Islamic State group abducted him on November 1, 2013, in Aleppo, the Syrian Journalist Union reported. Despite multiple reports of his execution, Orient TV has not confirmed his death. In August 2014, news reports emerged stating that men from the Islamic State…
Omar Younis al-Ghaafiqi, a video journalist and technician, was kidnapped by Islamic State militants on October 12, 2014, al-Ghaafiqi’s wife, who preferred not to disclose her identity, told CPJ via messaging app on July 24, 2020. Al-Ghaafiqi worked for Sama Mosul, a TV channel established and run under the patronage of former Mosul governor Atheel…
Iraqi cameraman Ahmad al-Dulami, who professionally used the name Ahmad al-Watany, was abducted by members of the Islamic State group in June 2014 in Baiji, north of Tikrit, according to media reports. His whereabouts remain unknown. There were multiple unconfirmed reports of his murder a month after his abduction and again in January 2015, but…
The body of Anabel Flores Salazar, a reporter for El Sol de Orizaba who was abducted from her home near the city of Orizaba in Veracruz on February 8, was found the following day in the neighboring state of Puebla, according to a statement from the Veracruz Attorney General’s Office. At least eight armed assailants…