Libya - Newspaper editor gunned down on Benghazi street

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders condemns in the strongest terms newspaper editor Muftah Bu Zeid's murder today in Benghazi. Gunmen in a car shot Zeid three times in the head and abdomen shortly after he got out of his own car in Istiqlal Street (former Gamal Abdel Nasser Street) in the city centre at around 10:30 am. The 59-year-old editor of the popular state-owned weekly Burniq, for which he had worked for several years, was widely respected in Benghazi for his bold and firm criticism of the (...)

© Reporters sans frontières - lundi 26 mai 2014