Anniversary of the 2003 killing of Journalist Mazan Dana in Iraq
Today marks the anniversary of the US military killing of a Mazen Dana, a Palestinian journalist working for Reuters on August 17th, 2003 during the Iraq war, after a lifetime of journalism after a career working in the face of anti-journalist violence. He was one of 2000 journalists killed in from the years 2000 to 2025 years, according to reporting by Brown University’s Cost of War Project. Image courtesy: logo of the Committee to Protect Journalists, from whom Dana received an International Press Freedom Award for his work in Hebron, in the West Bank https://cpj.org/
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