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The bodies of al-Ayzari, a reporter for the satellite TV news network Suhail TV, and Abdullah Qabil, a reporter for the satellite TV news networks Belqees TV and Yemen Youth TV, were found in the rubble of a building hit by an airstrike. The journalists were found days after they had been abducted. The building…

The bodies of Qabil, a reporter for the satellite TV news networks Belqees TV and Yemen Youth TV, and Youssef al-Ayzari, a reporter for the satellite TV news network Suhail TV, were found in the rubble of a building hit by an airstrike. The journalists were found days after they had been abducted. The building…

Jalaa al-Abadi, an Iraqi cameraman, was shot dead more than a month after he was kidnapped by Islamic State militants in the city of Mosul, capital of Nineveh province, according to his outlet, the Nineveh Reporters Network, and the Iraqi Journalists Syndicate. A representative of the Nineveh Reporters Network told CPJ that al-Abadi worked for…

Noori’s body was found in a bag, mutilated and stabbed, on the side of a road in a suburb of Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital, according to news reports. His family said he had been abducted by armed men earlier that day and had been missing for nine hours, reports said. Noori worked as the…

The decapitated body of columnist and government spokesman Jorge Torres Palacios was found in a bag in an orchard in Guerrero state on June 2, four days after he was abducted by unidentified assailants at his home in Acapulco, according to news reports. Torres wrote a weekly column on politics and security, called “Nothing Personal,”…

Gregorio Jiménez de la Cruz was abducted on February 5, 2014, and his body was found buried along with two more people in the Las Choapas municipality in Mexican state of Veracruz on February 11, according to news reports. Armed men reportedly intercepted Jiménez at his home in the town of Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, after the journalist dropped his…

On September 2, 2014, the militant group Islamic State released a video that purported to show the beheading of freelance journalist Steven Sotloff, who held joint American and Israeli citizenship. The following day, U.S. President Barack Obama confirmed the video was authentic. Sotloff was the second American murdered by Islamic State in a span of…

Orellana’s body was found in the southwestern department of Suchitepéquez with a bullet wound in his head, according to news reports. Unidentified assailants had abducted him from his car hours earlier after he had left his home. Authorities said they found Orellana’s vehicle with all of his belongings and that the attack did not appear to…

On November 2, 2013, Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon, a sound technician for RFI, were abducted and killed shortly afterward in the remote northeastern Saharan town of Kidal. Gunmen seized the journalists as they left the home of Ambery Ag Rissa, a leader of the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad, a group of…

On November 2, 2013, Claude Verlon, a veteran sound engineer, was abducted, along with RFI senior reporter Ghislaine Dupont, and killed shortly afterward in the remote, northeastern Saharan town of Kidal, according to news reports. Gunmen seized the journalists as they left the home of Ambery Ag Rissa, a leader of the National Movement for…