BAGHDAD, Iraq — Two Iraqi journalists have been killed in separate incidents in Baghdad, police said Tuesday.
Mohammed Abbas Hamad, 28, a journalist for the Shiite-owned newspaper Al-Bayinnah Al-Jadida, was shot by gunmen at he left his home Monday in the Adil section of western Baghdad, police Lt. Mohammed Khayoun said.
Late Monday, police found the bullet-riddled body of freelance journalist Ismail Amin Ali, 30, about a half mile from where he was abducted two weeks ago in northeast Baghdad, Lt. Ahmed Mohammed Ali said. The body showed sign of torture, he added.
International media organizations have expressed concern at the growing number of attacks against journalists and media employees in Iraq.
Last week, Reporters Without Borders, a French press freedom organization, said that no armed conflict since World War II "has been so deadly for the press" as the conflict in Iraq.
Reporters Without Borders said about 100 journalists and media assistants are known to have been killed in Iraq since 2003. The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists puts the number at 75 journalists and 27 media assistants killed, including at least 54 Iraqis.
The figures do not include the most recent deaths.
