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Article: Killing the messengers: thirty-seven murdered journalists - and counting. (Algeria)
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- Columbia Journalism Review
- Article date:
- May 1, 1995
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Last December, a reporter for Algerian national radio -- let's call her Batoul Bachir -- was working at the network's offices in Algiers when she received a visit from members of the country's security forces. "They said I should not return to my house," she says, "because they had just killed a leading terrorist, and on his body they found a list of women active in a feminist organization." When they showed Bachir the list, she saw not only her name but also detailed information about "when I returned home and what route I took to get home. They even knew when one of my friends went to visit her mother."
A week later, Bachir left for Paris, where she is currently ...