Zakariya Rashid Hassan al-Ashiri

Year: 2011

Nationality: Bahrain

Killed by: Government Officials

Location: Al-Dair, Bahrain

Press organization: Freelance

What's Zakariya Rashid Hassan al-Ashiri's story?

Zakariya Rashid Hassan al-Ashiri, a Bahraini journalist who moderated and wrote for a local news website in his home village of Al-Dair, died after being tortured in a government detention center on April 9, 2011, according to news reports and a government commission of inquiry launched later that year.

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