List of assassinated human rights activists

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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  | Assassi  |  France | Executioner

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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 | 1870 | 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
Patrice Lumumba | 1961 | 17 January  | First Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and anti-colonial activist  | near Élisabethville |  Democratic Republic of the Congo | Congolese coup leaders with Belgian and U.S. involvement
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 |

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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 | Filipino 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 |
Peter Tosh | 1987 | 11 September  | Jamaican reggae musician and activist for Black liberation  | Kingston |  Jamaica | Dennis "Leppo" Lobban
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[1]
Marc Angelucci | 2020 | 11 July  | US Men's Rights Activist and Attorney  | California, US |  US | Roy Den Hollander [2]
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 [3][4]
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 [5][6]
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 [7]

## References

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1. ^ "Pakistan rights group to protest killing of activist". Aljazeera. 4 February 2019.
2. ^ "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.
3. ^ "The murder of Abahlali's Ayanda Ngila is an injury to us all". Daily Maverick. 15 March 2022.
4. ^ "Killing of land rights defender Ayanda Ngila and targeting of Abahlali baseMjondolo". 25 March 2022.
5. ^ "Abahlali leader describes how Nokuthula Mabaso was shot 4 times in back, then in breast and stomach". Daily Maverick. 12 May 2022.
6. ^ "Killing of woman human rights defender Nokuthula Mabasoo". 7 June 2022.
7. ^ "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."