Mirwais Jalil
Year: 1994
Nationality: Afghanistan
Killed by:
Location: Kabul, Afghanistan
Press organization: BBC World Service
What's Mirwais Jalil's story?
Jalil, a 25-year-old reporter for the Pashto- and Persian-language sections of the BBC World Service, was kidnapped and murdered while returning from an interview with renegade prime minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar at his base in Charasyab, south of Kabul. Five masked militiamen stopped Jalil’s taxi and abducted him at gunpoint. The assailants released the taxi driver and an Italian journalist who was traveling with Jalil.
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