A US state department spokesman at the time said the attack was a mistake. Ali was returning to Benghazi from a nearby town when unknown fighters opened fire on the car he and his colleagues were travelling in. A year later, again in Syria, Hussein Abbas was killed when he was on his way back from covering the fighting on the outskirts of Idlib. In September , digital reporter Mohamed Abduljaleel al-Qasim was killed in an ambush by unidentified assailants in Idlib.
Later that year, Mahran al-Deery, also a digital correspondent, was killed in a car accident when he was on his way to report on fighting between opposition factions and Syrian government forces in Sheikh Miskeen on the outskirts of Deraa. A year later, in June, photographer Mohamed al-Asfar was also killed in Deraa while covering fighting between opposition fighters and government troops in the Manshiya neighbourhood of the city.
Also in , photographer Zakariya Ibrahim died of shrapnel injuries he sustained while reporting on a Syrian government bombardment in the province of Homs. Tragedy struck again in Syria in when Al Jazeera Mubasher correspondent Ibrahim al-Omar was killed in a Russian air raid on the town of Tamanyeen in Idlib province.
Three weeks later, reporter Mubarak al-Ebadi was killed when was covering clashes in Jawf governorate in northern Yemen. In honour of the fallen journalists, Al Jazeera established a monument at its headquarters in Doha; a steel tree sculpture with leaves that carry the names of the reporters. The monument serves as a constant reminder of the high price that has been paid in the pursuit of facts. In other instances, journalists working for Al Jazeera have been wounded in the field, while many more have been intimidated, banned, forced to leave their country, prosecuted, and in some cases jailed for years.
He was transferred there one month after Pakistani security forces arrested him at the Afghan-Pakistan border in December No charges have ever been brought against the Sudanese national. In a more recent case, Egyptian journalist Mahmoud Hussein was released from prison in Cairo in February after being held for more than four years without formal charges or trial. The President of Tunis must order his security forces to reopen the offices of Aljazeera immediately and to stop harassing the journalists and the media".
The IFJ represents more than , journalists in countries. Subscribe to IFJ News. This website uses cookies. Ultimately, infotainment may have been what the people wanted. CNN has spent the last few years growing; al-Jazeera, despite that initial interest, has not. It is a sad day for American journalism. This article is more than 5 years old. Al-Jazeera expected to cut hundreds of jobs.
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