Zakariya Rashid Hassan al-Ashiri

Zakariya Rashid Hassan Al-Ashiri
Born
زكريا راشد حسن العشيري

1971
Al Dair, Muharraq, Bahrain
Died9 April 2011
Al-Dair, Bahrain
Occupation(s)Blogger, journalist, Internet reporter, editor

Zakariya Rashid Hassan Al-Ashiri (Arabic: زكريا راشد حسن العشيري), also spelled Al Asheri and Aushayri, (1971– April 9, 2011), was a forty-year-old Bahraini blogger and journalist, worked as an editor and writer for a local blog news website in Al Dair, Bahrain. He was killed on April 9, 2011, while in custody of the Bahraini Government.[1][2] Al-Ashiri was the first journalist in Bahrain to die in direct relation to his work since The Committee to Protect Journalists started keeping records in 1992, and he was the first to die in the Bahraini uprising (2011–present).[3]

Al-Ashiri was also the second blogger-journalist worldwide to have been killed for his blogging. Al-Ashiri follows the death two years earlier of Iranian Omid Reza Mir Sayafi, who was the first blogger to have been known to be killed for his publication. Two months after Al-Ashiri, Brazilian blogger Edinaldo Filgueira was killed in June 2011.[4]

  1. ^ Matthew Cassel. 2011. "Arrests said forcing Bahraini writers into exile." al-Jazeera, 16 July. Retrieved 9 November 2011 al-Jazeera
  2. ^ BBC. "البحرين: وفاة ناشطين في" April 12, 2011. Retrieved 28 November 2011 BBC Arabic
  3. ^ "Zakariya Rashid Hassan al-Ashiri". Committee to Protect Journalists. Retrieved September 20, 2011.
  4. ^ Curt Hopkins. 2011. "Brazilian blogger assasinated [sic]." ReadWriteWeb, June 23. Retrieved 4 November 2011 from the Lexis-Nexis Database.