Committee To Protect Journalists Releases 2007 List

The Committee to Protect Journalists will be releasing their annual report later today — 64 journalists have died in the line of duty in the past year. Most depressingly, 31 of the 64 deaths took place in Iraq as the result of direct, planned attacks on the journalists.

We’d take time to read through the painstakingly assembled biographies of the dead that the CPJ has assembled, like the murder of television news producer Hamid al-Dulemi by forces related to the Mahdi Army:

Gunmen abducted al-Duleimi, a producer for the privately owned Nahrain satellite channel, as he left work in Baghdad’s Al-Aamel neighborhood, a source at Nahrain told CPJ.

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