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Al-Shoumari, a correspondent for the Egypt-based satellite channel Al-Baghdadia, was found shot in Baghdad’s southern district of Doura on April 4 by Iraqi police and taken to Yarmouk hospital morgue, his father told CPJ. Al-Shoumari, also know as al-Hadithi (the name of his family’s hometown), was abducted on April 3. Al-Shoumari was alone when he…

Khan’s body was found by villagers in the North Waziristan town of Miran Shah, where he had been kidnapped six months earlier. Khan was abducted on December 5, 2005, by five gunmen who ran his car off the road as his younger brother, Haseenullah, watched helplessly. Local government officials and family members said Khan, 32,…

The body of freelance journalist Ali, 30, was discovered in late evening by police in the eastern section of Baghdad known as al-Sadr City, according to a CPJ source. His body was riddled with bullets, and Iraqi police said they found signs of torture, The Associated Press reported. A local source told CPJ that the…

Sarsam, a cameraman working with Kurdistan TV, a station affiliated with the Kurdistan Democratic Party, was kidnapped and shot by suspected insurgents. Sarsam was abducted on March 13 in front of Mosul University. The following day his captors returned him to the same location, where they killed him in front of a number of pedestrians,…

Al-Rubai’i, a reporter and editor at the U.S.-backed daily Al-Sabah who also worked in the media department of the Iraqi National Assembly, was abducted and apparently murdered by unknown perpetrators in Baghdad. The circumstances of his abduction and apparent murder are not clear. No body was found. Iraqi officials told the journalist’s family that al-Rubai’i had been…

Sivaram was abducted on the night of April 28 and found dead the next morning from gunshot wounds to the head. Four unidentified men forced Sivaram into a jeep as he left a restaurant directly across from the Bambalapitya police station in the capital, according to witness accounts. Police told The Associated Press that they…

Vincent, who had written for a number of U.S. publications and was working on a book, was abducted along with his interpreter, Noor al-Khal, on August 2. They were taken by armed men driving what initial reports described variously as a government pickup truck or police car. Vincent’s body was riddled with bullets, his hands…

Samya Abdel Jabar and Mahmood Daoud, a driver and bodyguard for the Iraqi daily Al-Sabah al-Jedid, were abducted and killed by gunmen. Both men were working for Al-Sabah al-Jedid editor Ismael Zayer. A group of men arrived at Zayer’s house around 9 a.m. in a police car and two civilian cars, Zayer told CPJ an…

Samya Abdel Jabar and Mahmood Daoud, a driver and bodyguard for the Iraqi daily Al-Sabah al-Jedid, were abducted and killed by gunmen. Both men were working for Al-Sabah al-Jedid editor Ismael Zayer. A group of men arrived at Zayer’s house around 9 a.m. in a police car and two civilian cars, Zayer told CPJ an…

In August 2004, rebels in midwestern Nepal’s Dailekh District claimed to have killed Dekendra Raj Thapa, a journalist for state-run Radio Nepal and head of a local drinking water project. Local sources told CPJ that Thapa’s killing was connected to his work as a journalist. After the slaying, local rebel commanders told Thapa’s family that…