Al-Sharqiya TV correspondent Saif Talal and cameraman Hassan al-Anbaki, were killed while returning from a reporting trip on Jan. 12, 2016. The men were en route to the Muqdadiyah area as part of an Iraqi general’s convoy, when their vehicle lagged behind. Masked militiamen stopped the journalists’ car, forced them to exit and proceeded to execute them. A source told Agence France-Presse that the men were killed in sight of a police checkpoint, but police did not intervene.
More Articles
Recent Posts
- Africa Media Monitoring March 2024: Threats to press freedom in Chad, Nigeria, and Togo April 17, 2024
- The Outlook: Tailoring your content to social platforms April 15, 2024
- Ukraine: IPI sends letter to authorities on apparent intimidation of journalists April 12, 2024
- Georgia: MFRR partners strongly condemn new attempts to introduce a law on “Transparency of Foreign Influence” April 11, 2024
- Safety and justice: demanding accountability for attacks against journalists in Serbia April 11, 2024
- Malawi: Journalist charged under cybercrime law April 10, 2024
- Three years later: still no justice for murdered Greek journalist April 9, 2024
- Independence of Slovakia’s leading TV news channel must be protected April 8, 2024