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Assassination of Saif Talal and Hassan Al-Anbaki is about the political murder of Saif Talal, (January 12, 2016), and Hassan Al-Anbaki, (January 12, 2016), both Iraqis, were journalists for an independent Iraqi television news station, Al Sharqiya (The Eastern One), in Erbil, Iraq. Saif Talal was a correspondent while Hassan Al-Anbaki was Talal’s colleague and cameraman. Talal and Anbaki were killed by gunmen in Baqubah, Diyala province, Iraq January 12, 2016 while returning from a news investigation. The investigation was of a suicide bomber attack in Baqubah, Iraq on January 12, 2016.

Biographical
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Saif Talal
Personal: Saif Talal was a citizen of Iraq and was married to his wife and had one child. Talal enjoyed spending the summers in Amman, Jordan.

Career: Saif Talal worked as a reporter for the television news station, Al Sharqiya until his death.

Hassan Al-Anbaki
Personal: Hassan Al-Anbaki was a citizen of Iraq and married to his wife and had one child.

Career: Hassan Al-Anbaki worked as a cameraman for the television news station, Al Sharqiya until his death.

Death
Saif Talal and Hassan Al-Anbaki were returning to the new station they were employed at, Al-Sharqiya, in Erbil, Iraq, from a reporting trip on the suicide bombing in Baqubah, Iraq that killed two people and wounded a police officer earlier in the day. Talal and Al-Anbaki were with Staff Lieutenant General Mizher al-Azzawi, the head of security command responsible for the province. The vehicle they were in fell behind the rest of the convoy, when unidentified gunmen intercepted their vehicle while passing a through a small village. Reports say the masked men forced them to get out the car and opened fire with Kalashnikov assault rifles killing both Talal and Al-Andbaki.

Context
Iraq is currently one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists, especially those from the country, who are far more exposed to attacks than foreigners. Militia groups wield immense influence in the eastern province of Diyala, some of which have been repeatedly accused of serious abuses. According to Reporters Without Borders (RSF), eleven journalists were killed in Iraq in 2015, the most murdered of any other country. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reports that Iraq is the deadliest single country for journalists from 1992 to 2015, with 171 killed because of their work, almost double the second, which is Syria.

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Reactions
“We deplore the murder of these two Iraqi journalists. This shocking double murder must not go unpunished. Iraq is a minefield for journalists. We urge the authorities to conduct an independent investigation in order to solve this crime and bring those responsible to justice,” Alexandra El Khazen, the head of RSF's Middle East bureau, said in a statement.

In a statement published on its website on January 12 Al-Sharqiya accused "one of the militias on the loose" of carrying out the murder. The station, which had its license suspended by the Iraqi Commission of Media and Communications in 2013 for using a "sectarian tone" in its coverage of Sunni protests, did not accuse any specific militia or armed group of carrying out the attack.

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