His return had been delayed by concerns among Italian security forces that he could be assassinated.
Or that, in mid-1991, former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi would be assassinated?
"It is extremely troubling when those working to defend human rights in Kenya can be assassinated in broad daylight in the middle of Nairobi, " Phillip Alston said.
Fearful that their candidates will be assassinated, most of the main groups are not disclosing most of the names on their slates, beyond a few well-known figures.
Ms. YVETTE HOWARD (Resident, Texas): And my second concern - I almost hate to verbalize it - is - I hesitate to say it - but that he would be assassinated.
But while his future appears increasingly bleak, few believe the military would allow a former chief to be thrown in jail or assassinated by militants, he adds.
After all, Mr Gandhi's father, Rajiv, had promised to change the party and its ethos in a similarly stirring speech in 1985, before he went on to be prime minister and was later assassinated.
"It is only through swift and determined action against those who use violence to silence t the media that the tragic frequency with which journalists are assassinated in the Philippines can be reduced, " he concluded.
AlSamadi is the third journalist in Bahrain to be featured on the dedicated page UNESCO Remembers Assassinated Journalists since the start of demonstrations in the kingdom in February 2011.
Julio Cesar Franco, a Liberal, who was elected as vice-president in August (his Colorado predecessor was assassinated last year), insists that reforms will be carried out and that he is pressing his Liberal colleagues in Congress to back them.
The legislation creating the Secret Service was sitting on Abraham Lincoln's desk, waiting to be signed, on April 15, 1865, the night he was assassinated.
But they face opposition from hardliners and are assumed to be hobbled by Pakistan, and by the lesson of two leading moderates who have been assassinated in the past 13 months.
Although the common perception is that Mr Taseer was assassinated for his outspoken views on the blasphemy law in Pakistan, it would be very short-sighted to assume that a lone gunman decided to execute him for this reason alone.
The Biagi law, named after Marco Biagi, a labour-market adviser who was assassinated for his pains, exempted many new jobs from rules that required most work to be full-time and permanent.
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