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Iraq: Shooting of human rights defender and journalist Mr Imad Abadi

Posted on 2009/11/26

On 23 November 2009, journalist and human rights defender Mr Imad Abadi was shot in Baghdad. He remains in a critical condition in Yarmouk Hospital. Imad Abadi is a journalist with Al-Deyar satellite channel, an independent Iraqi television station. He is also associated with the Iraqi Association for Defending the Rights of Iraqi Journalists, and took part in a demonstration for journalists' rights in August 2009. Read More

Russian Federation – Assassination of anti-fascist human rights defender Mr Ivan Khoutorskoï

Posted on 2009/11/20

Front Line was deeply saddened to learn of the assassination of anti-fascist human rights defender Mr Ivan Khoutorskoï in Moscow on 16 November 2009. Ivan Khoutorskoï was shot dead at the bottom of his apartment building, apparently by two shots to the head. Read More

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