Sentence examples for were assassinated for from inspiring English sources

Nine people were assassinated for praying while black.

Both the Guatemalan anthropologist Myrna Mack Chang and the Roman Catholic Bishop Juan Jose Gerardi were assassinated for their investigations into human rights abuses -- Mack in 1990 and Gerardi in 1998.

Pakistani Christian Asia Bibi is fighting a death sentence for charges of defaming the Prophet, and politicians, Shahbaz Bhatti and Salman Taseer, were assassinated for campaigning on her behalf.

Having our heroes assassinated is devastating, particularly when they are assassinated for being exceptional.

Two moderate politicians have been assassinated for advocating reform of the unjust blasphemy law.

The local journalists union said that Mr. Hassan was assassinated for his reporting.

"He believed in the big picture and was assassinated for it," Mr. Beilin said.

No one knew whether he was killed during a robbery or was assassinated for being an inflexible opponent of the Khmer Rouge.

If convicted, this will be the first case in the world where a sports journalist has been assassinated for his comments about a local football club.

Some observers speculated that criminal gang warfare was behind the killing; others surmised that Ražnatović had been assassinated for state security reasons.

And Pakistani Christians have borne the brunt of arrests under the country's blasphemy law; a governor of my province was assassinated for trying to repeal it.