Ulf Strömberg, 42-year-old cameraman for Swedish channel TV4 was shot and killed in his room during a robbery by armed gunmen at the house where he and other journalists were staying.
ALGERIA: 2
Fadila Nejma, a reporter for the Arab weekly Echourouk and Adel Zerrouk, a reporter with the Arab daily Al-Rai were killed while covering mass anti-government protests organized by Berber community leaders in the capital, Algiers. Nejma died after being struck by a speeding bus during the protests. According to conflicting accounts, Zerrouk may also have been killed by the same bus, or trampled to death by a crowd of protesters at the rally.
BANGLADESH: 1
Nahar Ali, a correspondent for the Khulna-based, Bengali- language daily Anirban died of injuries sustained in an attack days earlier when masked men kidnapped him, stabbed him, and beat him severely, breaking his hands and legs, before abandoning him on the outskirts of his village, according to police. Ali was likely killed for his reporting on the activities of local criminal syndicates.
BOLIVIA: 1
Juan Carlos Encinas, 39-year-old free-lance reporter for the La Paz-based channel Canal 21 in the small town of Catavi, La Paz Department, died of wounds sustained while covering a fight between two mining cooperatives that were vying for control of a limestone quarry outside the city. Armed workers from a competing mine fired the shots that wounded Encinas, who died on the way to the hospital. He was carrying a camera, a tape recorder, and credentials that identified him as a journalist.
CHINA: 1
Feng Zhaoxia, a reporter for the Xi'an-based daily Gejie Daobao, was found with his throat cut in a ditch outside Xi'an. He was an investigative reporter who wrote about criminal gangs and their links to corrupt local politicians, and had received repeated death threats. His family and colleagues believe Feng was killed for his work as a journalist, but police ruled his death a suicide. Petitions to reopen the case have received no response.
COLOMBIA: 3
Flavio Bedoya, 52, a regional correspondent for the Bogotá-based Communist Party newspaper Voz, was shot and killed by four unidentified gunmen on motorcycles. One of the weekly's senior correspondents linked the murder to a series of highly critical reports by Bedoya about collusion between security forces and right-wing paramilitary gangs in Nariño Department. Police confirmed the killing but gave no further details.
José Duviel Vásquez Arias, news director of the local radio station La Voz de la Selva (The Voice of the Jungle) was shot and killed by an unidentified gunman. The murder was linked to his investigative reports on corruption scandals in which local government officials and members of the left-wing FARC guerrilla movement were implicated.
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