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Muftah Bu Zeid
Organization: Brnieq
Year: 2014
Country: Libya
Bio:
Threatened with death if he did not leave the country in 24 hours, Libyan newspaper editor Muftah Bu Zeid defiantly drove through Benghazi, hand-delivering copies of his newspaper. Gunmen ambushed him in his car on a busy street, fatally shooting him in the head, stomach and hands. He was 59. Days earlier, armed men had seized a shipment of the newspaper on its way to Tripoli, the Libyan capital. An outspoken critic of Islamist extremism, Bu Zeid discussed Libya's political crisis on television the day before he was killed. Deadly attacks on journalists in Libya have risen since the 2011 uprising that ousted dictator Moammar Gadhafi. |