Farag Fouda

Year: 1992

Nationality: Egypt

Killed by: Political Group

Location: , Egypt

Press organization: October

What's Farag Fouda's story?

Fouda, a columnist for the weekly magazine October, was gunned down and died the next day. A member of al-Gama’a al-Islamiya, a Muslim extremist group, allegedly committed the slaying. Fouda was an outspoken opponent of fundamentalism and was considered one of Egypt’s leading secularists.

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