Julio Fuentes Serrano (11 December 1954 – 19 November 2001) was a Spanish war correspondent for newspaper
El Mundo. On 19 November 2001, along with
Maria Grazia Cutuli
Maria Grazia Cutuli (October 26, 1962 – November 19, 2001) was an Italian journalist who worked as a reporter with the daily newspaper ''Corriere della Sera''. She was killed while on assignment in Afghanistan where she was covering the US ...
, Italian correspondent from
Il Corriere della Sera, Australian cameraman
Harry Burton and Afghan photograph Azizula Haidari, he was kidnapped and murdered by the
Taliban
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in the
Sarobi area on the highway between
Jalalabad and
Kabul
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in
Afghanistan
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.
Murder trial
Reza Khan
,
, spouse = Maryam Savadkoohi Tadj ol-Molouk Ayromlu (queen consort)Turan AmirsoleimaniEsmat Dowlatshahi
, issue = Princess Hamdamsaltaneh Princess ShamsMohammad Reza Shah Princess Ashraf Prince Ali Reza Prince Gholam Reza Prin ...
was convicted of participating in the murders and sentenced to death on 20 November 2004. Two Afghani brothers, Mahmood Zar Jan and Abdul Wahid, were also implicated and convicted in the murders of the journalists in 2005.
Khan was executed by gunfire in October 2007 at the same time that 14 others were executed, including the convicted murderers of Fuentes' colleagues.
See also
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References
1954 births
2001 deaths
Assassinated Spanish journalists
Journalists killed while covering the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
Spanish people murdered abroad
20th-century Spanish journalists
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