A young Libyan radio journalist who had been receiving death threats for weeks was shot dead in a hail of bullets in Benghazi on 19 September.
Tawfiq Ben Saud, only 18 years old, died along with his friend Sami Al-Kawafi as they were driving through a city suburb. A third passenger, Mohamed Bouszriba, was not hit.
Saud presented a programme called "Ishah bi Jawuha" (Live your Life) on the privately-owned and popular radio station Libyana Hits. He and Kawafi had also set up a human rights organisation, Al-Rahma (Mercy Foundation), and they had openly opposed armed extremist groups.
According to two of his friends, Saud had been receiving threats for the past month and had been advised to flee abroad, as many other Libyan journalists have done recently.
The Paris-based press freedom organisation, Reporters Without Borders, said Libya is now clearly governed by the "law of terror." More than 20 Libyan journalists have gone into self-imposed exile since June.
As a result, the violence is increasingly depriving the Libyan population of access to reliable reporting.
Source: Reporters Without Borders
