Julio Fuentes Serrano

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Julio Fuentes Serrano (11 December 1954 – 19 November 2001) was a Spanish war correspondent for newspaper El Mundo. On 19 November 2001, along with three other journalists, he was kidnapped and murdered by the Taliban in the Sarobi area on the highway between Jalalabad and Kabul in Afghanistan.[1][2]

Murder trial[]

Reza Khan was convicted of participating in the murders and sentenced to death on 20 November 2004.[3] Two Afghani brothers, Mahmood Zar Jan and Abdul Wahid, were also implicated and convicted in the murders of the journalists in 2005.[4] Khan was executed by gunfire in October 2007 at the same time that 14 others were executed, including the convicted murderers of Fuentes' colleagues.[5]

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References[]

  1. ^ "Journalists believed dead after ambush". The Guardian. 20 November 2001. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
  2. ^ Weiner, Tim (20 November 2001). "A NATION CHALLENGED: NEWS MEDIA; 4 Foreign Journalists Are Shot And Possibly Killed in Ambush". The New York Times. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
  3. ^ Death penalty for Afghan killer. BBC, 20 November 2004, Retrieved 7 May 2021
  4. ^ "Two more death sentences in 2001 murders of four journalists". Reporters Without Borders. October 31, 2005. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
  5. ^ Shah, Amir (October 9, 2007). "Afghan Government Executes 15 Prisoners". washingtonpost.com. Archived from the original on 2010-12-14. Retrieved 2021-05-07.


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