International News Safety Institute

06 September 2010

Sayed Hamid Noori

Incident

Sayed Hamid Noori

Cause of death

Knife attack

Details

Sayed Hamid Noori was found stabbed to death outside his home in Kabul.

Noori, 45, was a well-known TV news anchor at the state-owned broadcaster Radio Television Afghanistan. Noori had left home after receiving a series of phone calls, suggesting that he either knew his assailants or had been set up. He was vice president of Afghanistan's Association of Independent Journalists (AIJ) and a teacher of young journalists.

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