Journalists Killed in January 2025
The year 2025 was not a good one for journalists worldwide. Incidents of violence against journalists continued throughout the year. A total of 13 journalists were killed in different parts of the world in January 2025. We are providing brief details of these journalists:
Mukesh Chandrakar
1. Mukesh Chandrakar
January 3, 2025, Chhattisgarh, India
January 3, 2025, Chhattisgarh, India
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Omar al-Dirawi |
2. Omar al-Dirawi
January 3, 2025, Gaza, Palestine
On January 3, 2025, several Palestinians, including journalist Omar al-Dirawi, were killed in Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip. Nine Palestinians, including Omar al-Dirawi, were killed in Israeli airstrikes that targeted three homes in the central Gaza Strip on the morning of January 3. Al-Dirawi was killed in an attack on his home in al-Zawaida, in central Gaza.
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| Mohammad Hijazi |
3. Mohammad Hijazi
January 5, 2025, Gaza, Palestine
Palestinian journalist Mohammad Hijazi was killed in an Israeli attack in northern Gaza on January 5, 2025. According to the Gaza Health Ministry, Mohammad Hijazi was among approximately 90 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks in the besieged territory within a 24-hour period. Hijazi wrote on Facebook in August 2024, “I don’t know if I will write to you again. I keep what I have written and am writing. Maybe it will come to light one day. I refuse a cheap death. I curse the murderer.”
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| Saeed Nabhan |
4. Saeed Nabhan
January 10, 2025, Gaza, Palestine
Palestinian photojournalist Saeed Nabhan was killed in an Israeli army attack targeting the Al-Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on January 10, 2025. The 25-year-old photojournalist was shot and killed by an Israeli sniper while reporting in the Nuseirat refugee camp. According to eyewitnesses, the bullet entered Saeed's chest and exited through his back. Saeed worked for the private Al-Ghad TV and the Turkish state-run Anadolu Agency. Saeed's father, Sabri Abu Nabhan, said that his son had studied photography and video editing at the University College of Applied Sciences in Gaza because he was very passionate about journalism.
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| Ahlam a-Taluli |
5. Ahlam a-Taluli
13 January 2025, Gaza, Palestine
Palestinian journalist Ahlam a-Taluli, who had been covering the ongoing massacre in northern Gaza, was killed in Israeli airstrikes on January 13. Ahlam was a journalist, photographer, and nurse who was documenting the atrocities in Gaza. She had gathered evidence of Israeli war crimes from the besieged Indonesian hospital. Ahlam was targeted when she reached an area with internet access. Just a week before this incident, Ahlam had lost her father, who suffered from a chronic illness and was unable to receive treatment due to the Israeli blockade.
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| Mohammed Bashir al-Talmis |
6. Mohammed Bashir al-Talmis
14 January, Gaza, Palestine
Palestinian journalist Mohammed Bashir al-Talmis was killed in an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in Gaza City on January 14, 2025. Al-Talmis, a journalist and editor for the Palestinian news agency Safa, was seriously wounded when Israeli warplanes targeted a group of civilians in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood and died the following day. Al-Talmis had been a reporter for Safa since 2009.
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| Ahmad Abu Al-Rous |
7. Ahmad Abu Al-Rous
15 January 2025, Gaza, Palestine
Palestinian journalist Ahmad Abu Al-Rous was killed on January 15, 2025, shortly before a ceasefire was declared in Gaza. Abu Al-Rous was one of five people killed in an Israeli drone strike in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. The attack occurred just before the ceasefire between Israel and Gaza went into effect. The 29-year-old Palestinian journalist worked as a reporter and photographer for the local Asulta Arba (Fourth Estate) news agency. During the conflict, Ahmad had relocated from Nuseirat to the southern city of Rafah, where he continued his reporting. Abu Al-Rous was buried in the Nuseirat camp on January 16, 2025.
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| Calletano de Jesús Guerrero |
8. Calletano de Jesús Guerrero
17 January 2025, Mexico
On January 17, 2025, reporter Calletano de Jesús Guerrero was shot and killed by unknown assailants in the parking lot of the San Antonio de Padua parish church in Teoloyucan, a town 25 miles north of Mexico City. Guerrero, 57, had been receiving federal protection since 2014 due to threats related to his journalism. Guerrero worked as a deputy editor for the Facebook-based news outlet Global Mexico and regularly published reports on crime, violence, and politics in the State of Mexico. Guerrero had received his last threat on January 13, 2024, when unknown individuals threatened him at his home because of his reporting.
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| Gastón Medina |
9. Gastón Medina
20 January 2025, Peru
The journalist Gastón Medina was killed on January 20' 2025 by hitmen who shot him several times outside his home in the city of Ica. Medina, owner and director of Cadena Sur TV, was murdered by an armed man on a motorcycle, who shot him repeatedly as Medina was leaving his home to edit his midday program. After the attack, Medina was reportedly taken to a health center, where he died due to the severity of his injuries. In the same incident, Edwin Uchuya Lazarte, administrator of Radio Nova and driver of the vehicle that was waiting for Medina outside his house, was also injured.
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| Arlindo Chisale |
10. Arlindo Chisale
22 January 2025, Mozambique
Arlindo Chisale, editor and journalist of online media outlet Pinnacle News, was kidnapped and killed by security forces. Journalist Arlindo Chisale was known for reporting on human rights, corruption and Islamist insurgency in the gas-rich region of Cabo Delgado in northern Mozambique. The journalist's brother Macario Chisale said that Arlindo was reported dead on January 22, two weeks after he went missing from Mozambique's northernmost province Cabo Delgado on January 7, 2025. He was tortured before being killed and the heinous act was carried out by people wearing military uniforms in Cabo Delgado. On January 16, the journalist's family filed a complaint of Arlindo Chisale's kidnapping with the police in Pemba, the provincial capital of Cabo Delgado.
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| Oscar Gómez Agudelo |
11. Óscar Gómez Agudelo
24, January 2025, Colombia
Colombian journalist and former congressman Oscar Gómez Agudelo was shot and killed on January 24, 2025, in the city of Armenia, located in the center of the country, as he was on his way to the station where he hosted his morning radio program. According to witnesses of the event, Gómez Agudelo, who directed the program 'La comunidad por la comunidad,' in which he opened the microphones to listen to the needs of the people, was shot in the center of Armenia, capital of the department of Quindío, by a hitman who shot him when he was walking to the radio station Rumba del Café. Óscar Gómez Agudelo worked with several local radio stations.
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| Alejandro Gallegos León |
12. Alejandro Gallegos León
25 January 2025, Mexican state of Tabasco
51-year-old journalist Alejandro Gallegos León was found dead on the side of a road in the Mexican state of Tabasco on January 25, 2025. He had been shot. León was last seen the day before. Gallegos León was the founder and editor of the news website La Voz del Pueblo and wrote columns on local politics and education issues for the newspaper TabascoHoy, and was also a professor at Alfa y Omega University in the city of Villahermosa.
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| Aziz Koyluoglu |
13. Aziz Koyluoglu
25 January 2025, Iraq
Kurdish journalist Aziz Koyluoglu was killed in a Turkish attack in the Ranya district of Sulaymaniyah on January 27, 2025. He spent many years reporting on developments in the Kurdistan Region and cities in northern and eastern Syria. Koyluoglu was born in Amed in 1976 and began his career in the Ozgur Basin in the early 2000s. He worked for many years at every level of the press, from reporter-cameraman to editor, from news director to editor-in-chief. He worked as a journalist in many areas from Hevler to Sulaymaniyah, from Kirkuk to Makhmur, from the city of Derik in northern and eastern Syria to Afrin.
