Mazen Dana, Reuters cameraman and reporter, was shot dead on 17 August 2003. American soldiers in a tank fired at him while he was working near the US-run Abu Ghraib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad. The prison had earlier come under a mortar attack.

The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and Reporters Sans Frontières (Reporters Without Borders, RSF) in Paris have urged the US authorities to conduct a full inquiry. 

Dana, a 43-year-old Palestinian, had worked for Reuters mostly in the West Bank city of Hebron. The CPJ honoured him with its International Press Freedom Award in 2001 for his work in Hebron where he was wounded and beaten many times.