Journalists Killed in 1994 - Motive Confirmed: Yahia Djamel Benzaghou
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Date:
January 1995
March 19, 1994, in Algiers, Algeria
Benzaghou, director of Prime Minister Redha Malek's Press Department and a former reporter for the National Liberation Front daily, El Moudjahid, and the state news agency, Algerian Press Service, was gunned down in Bab El Oued, Algiers, where he lived.
| Medium: | |
| Job: | Editor, Print Reporter |
| Beats Covered: | Politics |
| Gender: | Male |
| Local or Foreign: | Local |
| Freelance: | No |
| Type of Death: | Murder |
| Suspected Source of Fire: | Unknown Fire |
| Impunity: | Yes |
| Taken Captive: | No |
| Tortured: | No |
| Threatened: | No |
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