Rasha Abdullah Al-Harazi, Yemen

On November 9, 2021, Rasha Abdullah Al-Harazi, a journalist from Yemen, died in a targeted car bomb attack while she was nine months pregnant.  Al-Harazi had also received many threats in the months before her death, Khalid Ibrahim of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights told IPI last year. “By phone she was told to stop doing journalism”, he said. “But we didn’t know it would be this serious.”

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