Altaf Ahmed Faktoo
Year: 1997
Nationality: India
Killed by: Political Group
Location: Srinagar, India
Press organization: Doordarshan TV
What's Altaf Ahmed Faktoo's story?
Faktoo, an anchor for the state-owned Doordarshan television station in Srinagar, Kashmir, was assassinated, reportedly by militant separatists, who fired two shots at the journalist with a gun equipped with a silencer. He had received repeated threats from militant separatists because of his work and had been kidnapped and detained by a militant group in 1994.
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