RFE/RL's Persian-language Service, Radio Farda, is mourning the loss of Mahin Gorji who passed away on December 26. RFE/RL's Golnaz Esfandiari remembers a much-loved colleague:
Peter Vail, a longtime pillar of RFE/RL's Russian Service, died late on December 7 in Prague following a long illness. He was 60 years old. A distinguished author and journalist, Vail worked for more than 20 years in RFE/RL's Russian Service.
Nazar Abdulwahid Al-Radhi, a correspondent for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), was shot and killed in the southern Iraqi city of Al-Amarah on May 30, 2007.
Iraqi journalist Khamail Muhsin Khalaf, a reporter for Radio Free Iraq, the Arabic language service of RFE/RL in Iraq, was found dead in western Baghdad on April 5, 2007.
William E. Griffith, political advisor at Radio Free Europe in the 1950s and visiting scholar at the RFE/RL Research Institute in the early 1990s, died in Boston on Sept. 28.
