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German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier also condemned the murders, "This heinous crime must be solved and the perpetrators brought before justice." [16] The two journalists happened to be killed on the same day as Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, which remains a high-profile international case of a journalist killed for her ...
Camera operator Adil Bunyatov for Reuters TV and the Turan News Agency was killed on 17 March 1995, while covering a military offense on a rebel police unit. [ 8 ] Elmar Huseynov , founder and editor of the opposition weekly news magazine Monitor , was gunned down in his apartment building in Baku on 2 March 2005.
In 2015 Dragan Vasiljkovic, a dual citizen of Serbia and Australia, was extradited from Perth to Croatia, where in 2017 he was found guilty of war crimes, including the death of Scotland, and sentenced to 15 years of jail. [2] According to Balkan Insight he was the only person to be convicted for the death of a journalist in the Balkan wars. [5]
Numerous journalists have been murdered or killed in the United States while reporting, covering a military conflict, or because of their status as a journalist. At least 39 of these have been directly targeted as a result of their journalistic investigations. [1] The most dangerous sector of the US media after 1980 has been the race and ethnic ...
Mika Yamamoto (1967–2012) Japanese photographer and TV journalist. Killed on August 20, 2012, in Aleppo, while covering the Syrian civil war; Isobel Yeung Covered conflicts in Yemen, Syria, Philippines. Michael Yon (born 1964); former Green Beret, turned journalist and author. Embedded with American, British and Lithuanian combat units in ...
This category lists individual people who were murdered, raped, tortured, or otherwise victimized by wartime atrocities, but do not list articles about war crime incidents that are not specifically focused on the victims themselves.
Niedringhaus was killed at the age of 48 in an attack in Afghanistan, while covering the country's 2014 presidential election. [2] [3] [7] [13] Fellow AP journalist, Kathy Gannon, a 60-year-old Canadian, was seriously injured in the attack and underwent emergency surgery.