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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