Asiya Jeelani
Year: 2004
Nationality: India
Killed by: Political Group
Location: Kashmir, India
Press organization: freelance
What's Asiya Jeelani's story?
Jeelani died en route to the hospital after a van carrying an electionsmonitoring team detonated an explosive device on a rural road in northernKashmir. Jeelani was a freelance journalist who contributed to local newspapers,and a human rights activist who worked with several nongovernmentalorganizations. Local sources said she was helping a local umbrellaorganization, the Coalition of Civil Society, prepare an account ofits monitoring activity, and may have been reporting on the electionherself. The driver of the van was also killed in the blast. After the explosion,the coalition called off its monitoring activities, citing the dangerinvolved.
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