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This is a list of murdered political dissidents and human rights activists. The list is chronological.
| Intended victims | Year | Date | Title at the time | Place | Country | Assassin(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Olympe de Gouges | 1793 | 3 November | French playwright and political activist whose writings on women's rights and abolitionism brought her execution by guillotine | Paris |  France
|
Executioner |
| Elijah Parish Lovejoy | 1837 | 7 November | American journalist, newspaper editor and abolitionist | Alton, Illinois |  United States
|
mob |
| Abraham Lincoln | 1865 | 15 April | President of the U.S. and anti-slavery activist | Washington, D.C. | United States
|
John Wilkes Booth |
| John W. Stephens | 1913 | 22 February | American state senator who assisted freed slaves | Yanceyville, North Carolina | United States
|
Ku Klux Klan |
| Francisco I. Madero | 1913 | 22 February | President of Mexico | Mexico City |  Mexico
|
Victoriano Huerta |
| Song Jiaoren | 1913 | 22 March | Chinese republican leader of Kuomintang | Shanghai |  China
|
Wu Shiying |
| Jean Jaurès | 1914 | 31 July | French Marxist anti-war activist | Paris | France
|
Raoul Villain |
| John Chilembwe | 1915 | 3 February | Malawian philosopher and educator | Shire Highlands |  Nyasaland
|
British colonial officers |
| Leo Jogiches | 1919 | 10 March | German Marxist revolutionary | Berlin |  Germany
|
Freikorps |
| Karl Liebknecht | 1919 | 15 January | German revolutionary | Berlin | Germany
|
Freikorps |
| Rosa Luxemburg | 1919 | 15 January | Polish-German revolutionary | Berlin | Germany
|
Freikorps |
| Charlemagne Péralte | 1919 | 1 November | Haitian nationalist leader | Port-au-Prince |  Haiti
|
U.S. Marines |
| Emiliano Zapata | 1919 | 10 April | Mexican peasant leader | Chinameca | Mexico
|
Jesús Guajardo |
| Mustafa Suphi | 1921 | 28 January | Turkish communist leader | Black Sea |  Turkey
|
Turkish agents |
| Michael Collins | 1922 | 22 August | Irish independence leader | Béal na Bláth |  Ireland
|
Irish Civil War |
| Giacomo Matteotti | 1924 | 10 June | Italian anti-fascist | Rome |  Italy
|
Blackshirts |
| Avni Rustemi | 1924 | 22 April | Albanian teacher and activist | Tirana |  Albania
|
Jusuf Reçi |
| Takiji Kobayashi | 1933 | 20 February | Japanese author | Tokyo |  Japan
|
police |
| Augusto César Sandino | 1934 | 21 February | Nicaraguan revolutionary | Managua |  Nicaragua
|
United States Marine Corps |
| Antonio Guiteras | 1935 | 8 May | Cuban politician | Matanzas |  Cuba
|
Cuban government |
| Walter W. Liggett | 1935 | 9 December | American journalist | Minneapolis, Minnesota | United States
|
Blumenfeld |
| Abdul Rahman Shahbandar | 1940 | June | Syrian nationalist | Damascus |  Syria
|
National Bloc members |
| Leon Trotsky | 1940 | 21 August | Soviet dissident | Coyoacán, Mexico City | Mexico
|
Ramón Mercader |
| Marx Dormoy | 1941 | 26 July | French socialist politician | Montélimar | France
|
Comité secret d'action révolutionnaire |
| Carlo Tresca | 1943 | 11 January | American newspaper editor | New York City | United States
|
NKVD |
| Mahatma Gandhi | 1948 | 30 January | Indian independence movement leader | New Delhi |  India
|
Nathuram Godse |
| Jorge Eliécer Gaitán | 1948 | 9 April | Mayor of Bogotá | Bogotá |  Colombia
|
El Bogotazo |
| Julien Lahaut | 1950 | 18 August | Belgian Republican politician | Seraing |  Belgium
|
François Goossens |
| Leonardo Ruiz Pineda | 1952 | 21 October | Venezuelan lawyer | Caracas |  Venezuela
|
police |
| Albert Patterson | 1954 | 18 June | American attorney | Phenix City, Alabama | United States
|
Sheriff Albert Fuller |
| George W. Lee | 1955 | 7 May | American civil rights leader and minister | Midnight, Mississippi | United States
|
Unidentified shooter |
| Lamar Smith | 1955 | 13 August | American civil rights leader, farmer, and veteran | Brookhaven, Mississippi | United States
|
Unidentified shooter |
| Dr. Thomas Hency Brewer | 1956 | 18 February | American co-founder of an NAACP chapter | Columbus, Georgia | United States
|
Luico Flowers |
| Ali Boumendjel | 1957 | 23 March | Algerian militant and lawyer | El Biar | French Algeria
|
Paul Aussaresses |
| Maurice Audin | 1957 | 11 June | Algerian student | Algiers | French Algeria
|
André Charbonnier |
| Ruben Um Nyobé | 1958 | 13 September | Cameroonian anti-colonialist | Boumnyébel |  Cameroon
|
French army |
| Salah Ben Youssef | 1961 | 12 August | Tunisian lawyer and politician | Frankfurt | West Germany
|
Tunisian agents |
| Herbert Lee | 1961 | 25 September | American civil rights and voting rights activist | Liberty, Mississippi | United States
|
E. H. Hurst |
| Mouloud Feraoun | 1962 | 15 March | Algerian journalist and translator | Algiers |  Algeria
|
OAS |
| William Lewis Moore | 1963 | 23 April | American protesting racial segregation | Attalla, Alabama | United States
|
Unidentified/disputed shooter |
| Grigoris Lambrakis | 1963 | 27 May | Greek anti-war activist | Thessaloniki |  Greece
|
Emannouel Emannouilides and Spyros Gotzamanis |
| Medgar Evers | 1963 | 12 June | American civil rights activist | Jackson, Mississippi | United States
|
Byron De La Beckwith |
| Louis Allen | 1964 | 31 January | American voting rights activist | Amite County, Mississippi | United States
|
Disputed |
| James Chaney | 1964 | 21 June | American civil rights | Mississippi | United States
|
Ku Klux Klan |
| Andrew Goodman | 1964 | 21 June | American civil rights activist | Mississippi | United States
|
Ku Klux Klan |
| Michael Schwerner | 1964 | 21 June | American civil rights activist | Philadelphia, Mississippi | United States
|
Ku Klux Klan |
| Humberto Delgado | 1965 | 13 February | Portuguese anti-fascist | Olivenza |  Spain
|
PIDE |
| Malcolm X | 1965 | 21 February | American human rights activist | New York City | United States
|
members of the Nation of Islam |
| Pio Gama Pinto | 1965 | 24 February | Kenyan journalist | Nairobi |  Kenya
|
police |
| James Reeb | 1965 | 11 March | American minister and civil rights activist | Alabama | United States
|
mob |
| Viola Liuzzo | 1965 | 25 March | American civil rights activist | Selma, Alabama | United States
|
Ku Klux Klan |
| Jonathan Daniels | 1965 | 20 August | American civil rights activist | Hayneville, Alabama | United States
|
Tom Coleman |
| Mehdi Ben Barka | 1965 | 29 October | Moroccan revolutionary fighter and politician | Paris | France
|
French intelligence agents |
| Sammy Younge Jr. | 1966 | 3 January | American civil rights and voting rights activist | Tuskegee, Alabama | United States
|
Marvin Segrest |
| Vernon Dahmer | 1966 | 10 January | American civil rights and voting rights activist | Hattiesburg, Mississippi | United States
|
Ku Klux Klan |
| Osende Afana | 1966 | 15 March | Cameroonian economist | Ndélélé | Cameroon
|
Cameroonian Armed Forces |
| Chit Phumisak | 1966 | 5 May | Thai Marxist historian | Waritchaphum |  Thailand
|
local villagers |
| Robert W. Spike | 1966 | 17 October | American civil rights activist | Columbus, Ohio | United States
|
unknown |
| Wharlest Jackson | 1967 | 27 February | American NAACP chapter treasurer | Natchez, Mississippi | United States
|
unknown |
| Benno Ohnesorg | 1967 | 2 June | German anti-war activist | West Berlin | West Germany
|
Karl-Heinz Kurras |
| Che Guevara | 1967 | 9 October | Argentine revolutionary | La Higuera |  Bolivia
|
CIA-assisted Bolivian forces |
| Martin Luther King Jr. | 1968 | 4 April | American civil rights activist | Memphis, Tennessee | United States
|
James Earl Ray |
| Robert F. Kennedy | 1968 | 6 June | U.S. presidential candidate | Los Angeles, California | United States
|
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan |
| Tom Mboya | 1969 | 5 July | Kenyan Cabinet Minister | Nairobi | Kenya
|
Nahashon Isaac Njenga Njoroge |
| Fred Hampton | 1969 | 4 December | American civil rights activist | Chicago, Illinois | United States
|
members of the Chicago Police Department |
| Krim Belkacem | 1970 | 18 October | Algerian revolutionary fighter and politician | Frankfurt | West Germany
|
unknown |
| Dhirendranath Datta | 1971 | 29 March | East Pakistani lawyer | Moynamoti | 
|
Pakistani Army |
| Maximiliano Gómez | 1971 | 23 May | Dominican Republic politician |  Dominican Republic
|
orders of Joaquin Balaguer | |
| Ghassan Kanafani | 1972 | 8 July | Palestinian writer | Beirut |  Lebanon
|
Mossad |
| Outel Bono | 1973 | 26 August | Chadian medical doctor and politician | Paris | France
|
French secret service and Chadian Government |
| Amílcar Cabral | 1973 | 20 January | Guinea-Bissauan and Cape Verdean intellectual, poet, theoretician, and revolutionary | Conakry |  Guinea
|
Portuguese intelligence agents |
| Víctor Jara | 1973 | 16 September | Chilean teacher and theater director | Santiago |  Chile
|
Pedro Barrientos |
| Silvio Frondizi | 1974 | 27 September | Argentine intellectual and lawyer | Buenos Aires |  Argentina
|
Argentine Anticommunist Alliance |
| Carlos Mugica | 1974 | 11 May | Argentine Roman Catholic priest and activist | Villa Luro | Argentina
|
Rodolfo Almirón |
| José Tohá | 1974 | 15 March | Chilean journalist | Santiago | Chile
|
military |
| Omar Benjelloun | 1975 | 18 December | Moroccan journalist and trade union activist | Casablanca |  Morocco
|
Chabiba islamia |
| Herbert Chitepo | 1975 | 18 March | Rhodesian ZANU-activist | Lusaka |  Zambia
|
Rhodesian Security Forces |
| Josiah Mwangi Kariuki | 1975 | 2 March | Kenyan socialist politician | Nairobi | Kenya
|
Kenyan police |
| Roque Dalton | 1975 | 10 May | Salvadoran poet, essayist, journalist, political activist, and intellectual | San Salvador |  El Salvador
|
People's Revolutionary Army |
| Boonsanong Punyodyana | 1976 | 28 February | Thai socialist politician | Bangkok | Thailand
|
unknown |
| Enrique Angelelli | 1976 | 4 August | Bishop of La Rioja | Sañogasta | Argentina
|
Argentinian military |
| Orlando Letelier | 1976 | 21 September | Chilean economist, ex-ambassador | Washington, DC | United States
|
Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional |
| Bantu Stephen Biko | 1977 | 12 September | South African anti-apartheid activist | Pretoria |  South Africa
|
South African Police Forces |
| Janani Luwum | 1977 | 17 February | Ugandan archbishop | Kampala |  Uganda
|
Idi Amin regime |
| Rutilio Grande | 1977 | 12 March | Salvadoran priest | Aguilares | El Salvador
|
mob |
| Mir Akbar Khyber | 1978 | 17 April | Afghan intellectual and editor | Kabul |  Afghanistan
|
Unknown, Possibly Hekmatyar's Hezbi Islami, Khalq Faction of PDPA or Babrak Karmal |
| Henri Curiel | 1978 | 4 May | Egyptian left-wing political activist | Paris | France
|
OAS and Charles Martel Group |
| Georgi Markov | 1978 | 11 September | Bulgarian dissident | London |  United Kingdom
|
Bulgarian secret service |
| Harvey Milk | 1978 | 27 November | American LGBT human rights activist | San Francisco, California | United States
|
Dan White |
| George R. Moscone | 1978 | 27 November | Mayor of San Francisco | San Francisco, California | United States
|
Dan White |
| José Miguel Beñaran Ordeñana | 1978 | 21 December | Spanish Basque activist | Anglet | France
|
car bomb |
| Allard K. Lowenstein | 1980 | 14 March | American civil rights activist | New York City | United States
|
Dennis Sweeney |
| Óscar Romero | 1980 | 24 March | Archbishop of San Salvador | San Salvador | El Salvador
|
mob |
| Walter Rodney | 1980 | 13 June | Guyanese historian, political activist and scholar | Georgetown |  Guyana
|
unknown |
| Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz | 1980 | 17 July | Bolivian writer, dramatist, and journalist | La Paz | Bolivia
|
Luis Garcia Meza |
| Enrique Álvarez Córdova | 1980 | 27 November | Salvadoran politicians | San Salvador | El Salvador
|
Brígada Anticomunista Maximiliano Hernández Martínez |
| John Lennon | 1980 | 8 December | British anti-war activist and ex-Beatle | New York City | United States
|
Mark David Chapman |
| Pierre Declercq | 1981 | 19 September | French New Caledonian politician | Nouméa |  New Caledonia
|
unknown |
| Anwar Sadat | 1981 | 6 October | President of Egypt and peace activist | Cairo, Egypt |  Egypt
|
Egyptian Islamic Jihad |
| Attati Mpakati | 1983 | 24 March | Malawian dissident | Harare |  Zimbabwe
|
Malawian agents |
| Benigno Aquino Jr. | 1983 | 21 August | Filipino opposition leader | Manila |  Philippines
|
Filippino agents |
| Alan Berg | 1984 | 1 January | American attorney and talk radio show host | Denver, Colorado | United States
|
Silent Brotherhood |
| Henry Liu | 1984 | 15 October | Taiwanese writer and journalist | Daly City, California | United States
|
Bamboo Union |
| Jerzy Popiełuszko | 1984 | 19 October | Polish Roman Catholic priest | Włocławek |  Poland
|
Polish Security Service |
| Gérard Hoarau | 1985 | 29 November | Seychellois politicians | London | United Kingdom
|
France-Albert René regime |
| Shahnawaz Bhutto | 1985 | 18 July | Pakistani democracy activist | Nice | France
|
Zia ul-Haq regime |
| Murtaza Bhutto | 1985 | 20 September | Pakistani democracy activist | Karachi | Pakistan
|
police |
| Éloi Machoro | 1985 | 12 January | New Caledonian Kanak politician | Canala | New Caledonia
|
French gendarme |
| Fort Calata | 1985 | 27 June | South African anti-apartheid activist | Port Elizabeth | South Africa
|
South African Police Forces |
| Matthew Goniwe | 1985 | 27 June | South African anti-apartheid activist | Port Elizabeth | South Africa
|
South African Police Forces |
| Sicelo Mhlauli | 1985 | 27 June | South African anti-apartheid activist | Port Elizabeth | South Africa
|
South African Police Forces |
| Sparrow Mkhonto | 1985 | 27 June | South African anti-apartheid activist | Port Elizabeth | South Africa
|
South African Police Forces |
| Hugo Spadafora | 1985 | 13 September | Panamanian activist | La Concepción |  Panama
|
Panamanian government |
| Olof Palme | 1986 | 28 February | Prime Minister of Sweden | Stockholm |  Sweden
|
unknown |
| Jaime Pardo Leal | 1987 | 11 October | Colombian lawyer and union leader | La Mesa | Colombia
|
Colombian mafia |
| Dulcie September | 1988 | 29 March | South African anti-apartheid political activist | Paris | France
|
South African agents |
| Chico Mendes | 1988 | 22 December | Brazilian trade unionist and environmentalist | Xapuri |  Brazil
|
Darci and Darly Alves da Silva, Jerdeir Pereira |
| Pat Finucane | 1989 | 12 February | Irish lawyer | Belfast | United Kingdom
|
Ken Barrett |
| David Webster | 1989 | 1 May | South African anthropologist | Troyeville | South Africa
|
South African Civil Cooperation Bureau |
| Jean-Marie Tjibaou | 1989 | 4 May | New Caledonian Kanak politician | Ouvéa | New Caledonia
|
Djubelly Wéa |
| Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou | 1989 | 13 July | Head of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan | Vienna |  Austria
|
Iranian agents |
| Luis Carlos Galán | 1989 | 18 August | Colombian journalist | Bogotá | Colombia
|
Colombian mafia |
| Anton Lubowski | 1989 | 12 September | Namibian anti-apartheid activist | Windhoek |  Namibia
|
South African Civil Cooperation Bureau |
| Segundo Montes | 1989 | 16 November | Salvadoran priest | San Salvador | El Salvador
|
Salvadoran army |
| Ignacio Ellacuría | 1989 | 16 November | Salvadoran philosopher and theologian | San Salvador | El Salvador
|
Salvadoran army |
| Richard de Zoysa | 1990 | 18 February | Sri Lankan journalist and actor | Rajagiriya |  Sri Lanka
|
Sri Lanka-linked death squad |
| Farag Foda | 1992 | 9 June | Egyptian professor | Heliopolis | Egypt
|
Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya |
| Marsha P. Johnson | 1992 | 4 July | Gay liberation and AIDS activist | New York City | United States
|
Unknown (described by witnesses as a "group of thugs") |
| Tavio Amorin | 1992 | 29 July 1992 | Togolese politician | Lomé |  Togo
|
police |
| Tahar Djaout | 1993 | 26 May | Algerian journalist and poet | Algiers | Algeria
|
Armed Islamic Group |
| Chris Hani | 1993 | 10 April | South African Anti-apartheid activist | Boksburg | South Africa
|
Janusz Waluś |
| Melchior Ndadaye | 1993 | 21 October | Burundian intellectual and politician | Bujumbura |  Burundi
|
Burundi Army |
| Jorge Carpio Nicolle | 1993 | 3 July | Guatemalan newspaper publisher | Chichicastenango |  Guatemala
|
mob |
| Cheb Hasni | 1994 | 29 September | Algerian musician | Oran | Algeria
|
Armed Islamic Group |
| Jon Simmons | 1994 | 1 October | LGBT rights activist | Los Angeles |  United States
|
Unknown |
| Johan Heyns | 1994 | 5 November | South African Anti-apartheid activist | Pretoria | South Africa
|
White South African extremists |
| Iqbal Masih | 1995 | 16 April | Pakistani child activist | Muridke | Pakistan
|
Carpet Mafia |
| Jaswant Singh Khalra | 1995 | 6 September | Indian human rights activist | Jhabal | India
|
Kanwar Pal Singh Gill |
| Yitzhak Rabin | 1995 | 4 November | Prime Minister of Israel and peace activist | Tel Aviv, Israel |  Israel
|
Yigal Amir |
| Kudirat Abiola | 1996 | 9 June | spouse of Nigerian presidential candidate Moshood Abiola | Lagos |  Nigeria
|
team of six men |
| Abdelhak Benhamouda | 1997 | 28 January | Algerian trade unionist | Algiers | Algeria
|
unknown |
| Lounès Matoub | 1998 | 25 June | Algerian musician | Beni Aïssi | Algeria
|
police |
| Azem Hajdari | 1998 | 12 September | Albanian anti-communists | Tirana | Albania
|
Fatmir Haklaj, Jaho Mulosmani, and Naim Cangu |
| Sanjaasürengiyn Zorig | 1998 | 2 October | Mongolian activist | Ulaanbaatar |  Mongolia
|
unknown |
| Galina Starovoytova | 1998 | 20 November | Russian dissidents | St Petersburg |  Russia
|
Russian state security service |
| Norbert Zongo | 1998 | 13 December | Burkinabé publisher | Sapouy |  Burkina Faso
|
Burkinabé agents |
| Bishop Juan José Gerardi | 1998 | 26 April | Guatemalan Roman Catholic bishop | San Sebastian Church | Guatemala
|
Guatemalan military personnels |
| Larisa Yudina | 1998 | 8 June | Russian journalist | Elista | Russia
|
unknown |
| Jaime Hurtado | 1999 | 17 February | Ecuadorian politician | Quito |  Ecuador
|
Christian Steven Ponce |
| Jean Dominique | 2000 | 3 April | Haitian journalist | Port-au-Prince | Haiti
|
unknown |
| Carlos Cardoso | 2000 | 22 November | Mozambican journalist | Maputo |  Mozambique
|
Nyimpine Chissano and Aníbal dos Santos |
| Filemon Lagman | 2001 | 6 February | Filipino workers' leader | Quezon City | Philippines
|
unknown |
| Phoolan Devi | 2001 | 25 July | Indian activist | New Delhi | India
|
Sher Singh Rana |
| Pim Fortuyn | 2002 | 6 May | Dutch politician and LGBT human rights activist | Hilversum, Netherlands |  Netherlands
|
Volkert van der Graaf |
| Jarallah Omar | 2002 | 28 December | Yemeni politician, intellectual | Sana'a |  Yemen
|
Ali Ahmad al-Jarallah |
| Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev | 2004 | 13 February | Chechen exiled separatist writer | Doha |  Qatar
|
FSB agents |
| Brian Williamson | 2004 | 5 June | Jamaican LGBT+ rights activist | Kingston |  Jamaica
|
Dwight Hayden |
| Munir Said Thalib | 2004 | 7 September | Indonesian human rights activist | Schiphol | Netherlands
|
Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto |
| FannyAnn Eddy | 2004 | 28 September | LGBT rights activist | Freetown |  Sierra Leone
|
Unknown |
| Deyda Hydara | 2004 | 16 December | Gambian newspaper reporter | Banjul |  Gambia
|
Yahya Jammeh regime |
| Elmar Hüseynov | 2005 | 2 March | Azerbaijani journalist | Baku |  Azerbaijan
|
Azerbaijani regime |
| Dorothy Stang | 2005 | 15 March | Brazilian-American missionary | Anapu | Brazil
|
Clodoaldo Carlos Batista and Raifran das Neves Sales |
| Filiberto Ojeda Ríos | 2005 | 23 September | Puerto Rican independence activist | Hormigueros |  Puerto Rico
|
FBI |
| Anna Politkovskaya | 2006 | 7 October | Russian journalist | Moscow | Russia
|
three Chechen men |
| Aleksandr Litvinenko | 2006 | 23 November | Russian dissident | London | United Kingdom
|
FSB agents |
| Hrant Dink | 2007 | 19 January | Turkish-Armenian editor, journalist and columnist | Istanbul | Turkey
|
Ogün Samast |
| Gareth Williams | 2007 | 14 February | Gay rights activist | Mandeville | Jamaica
|
mob |
| Gabriel Mkhumane | 2008 | 1 April | Swazi opposition leader | Nelspruit |  South Africa
|
Swaziland government agents |
| Tonderai Ndira | 2008 | 13–22 May | Zimbabwean political dissident | Harare | Zimbabwe
|
Zimbabwean agents |
| Natalya Estemirova | 2009 | 15 July | Russian human rights activist | Ingushetia | Russia
|
unknown |
| David Kato | 2011 | 27 January | Gay rights activist and teacher | Mukono Town | Uganda
|
Sidney Nsubuga Enoch |
| Raymond Taavel | 2012 | 17 April | LGBT rights activist | Halifax |  Canada
|
Andre Noel Denny |
| Sakine Cansız | 2013 | 9 January | Turkish Kurdish women's rights activist | Paris | France
|
Turkish agents |
| Chokri Belaïd | 2013 | 6 February | Tunisian lawyer | El Menzah |  Tunisia
|
Kamel Gaghgadhi |
| Avijit Roy | 2015 | 26 February | Bangladeshi online activist | Dhaka |  Bangladesh
|
Ansarullah Bangla Team |
| Boris Nemtsov | 2015 | 27 February | Russian political activist | Moscow | Russia
|
two Chechen men |
| Diana Sacayán | 2015 | 13 October | Argentinian transgender rights activist | Buenos Aires | Argentina
|
Gabriel David Marino |
| Berta Cáceres | 2016 | 3 March | Honduran environmental activist, indigenous leader | La Esperanza |  Honduras
|
employees of DESA |
| Xulhaz Mannan | 2016 | 25 April | Bangladeshi LGBT rights activist | Dhaka | Bangladesh
|
Ansar-al-Islam, an Al-Qaida affiliate |
| Marielle Franco | 2018 | 14 March | Brazilian politician, feminist, and human rights activist | Rio de Janeiro | Brazil
|
the Brazilian Government, allegedly |
| Arman Loni | 2019 | 2 February | Pashtun civil rights activist | Balochistan | Pakistan
|
Pakistani Police |
| Marc Angelucci | 2020 | 11 July | US Men's Rights Activist and Attorney | California, US | US
|
Roy Den Hollander |
| Ayanda Ngila | 2022 | 8 March | Activist and leader of shack dwellers' movement Abahlali baseMjondolo and the eKhenana Commune | Durban, South Africa | South Africa
|
Hitmen linked to African National Congress |
| Nokuthula Mabaso | 2022 | 5 May | Activist and leader of shack dwellers' movement Abahlali baseMjondolo and the eKhenana Commune | Durban, South Africa | South Africa
|
Hitmen linked to African National Congress |
| Lindokuhle Mnguni | 2022 | 20 August | Activist and leader of shack dwellers' movement Abahlali baseMjondolo and the eKhenana Commune | Durban, South Africa | South Africa
|
Hitmen linked to African National Congress |
References
- "Pakistan rights group to protest killing of activist". Aljazeera. 4 February 2019.
- "Slaying of men's rights activist in California linked to suspected shooter of federal judge's family, FBI confirms". The Mercury News. 2 July 2020.
- "The murder of Abahlali's Ayanda Ngila is an injury to us all". Daily Maverick. 15 March 2022.
- "Killing of land rights defender Ayanda Ngila and targeting of Abahlali baseMjondolo". 25 March 2022.
- "Abahlali leader describes how Nokuthula Mabaso was shot 4 times in back, then in breast and stomach". Daily Maverick. 12 May 2022.
- "Killing of woman human rights defender Nokuthula Mabasoo". 7 June 2022.
- "Lindokuhle Mnguni, the chairperson of the eKhenana Commune and an inspirational leader in our movement". Facebook. 20 August 2022.
Lindokuhle Mnguni, the chairperson of the eKhenana Commune and an inspirational leader in our movement, has been shot dead at the Commune in Cato Manor, eThekwini. Two men opened fire several times to his home at 1:30 am this morning. Our Hearts are Heavy, we are mourning another loss of a great leader. He is the third leader of the Commune to be assassinated this year. We lost Nokuthula Mabaso on 5 May and Ayanda Ngila on 8 March.