06 September 2010
Sayed Hamid Noori
Knife attack
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.