Veronica Guerin
Year: 1996
Nationality: Ireland
Killed by: Criminal Group
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Press organization: Sunday Independent
What's Veronica Guerin's story?
Guerin, a crime reporter for the Sunday Independent, was shot dead by assailants on a motorcycle as she was stopped in her car at a traffic light in Dublin. She had been repeatedly targeted for physical attacks, a shooting, and death threats because of her incisive, continuing investigation into Ireland’s criminal underworld that had garnered her CPJ’s 1995 International Press Freedom Award.
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