Another murder

IN Media Watch Briefs | 26/11/2007

Zubair Ahmed Mujahid, a correspondent of the national daily Jang, was shot at and killed by a man on a motorcycle on 23 November in Mirpur Khas, in the southern province of Sindh in Pakistan. He wrote a weekly column called "Crime and Punishment" in which he often criticised landowners and police. One of his reports led to arrests of local policemen involved in violence against villagers. (RSF)

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