IRAQI JOURNALIST AHMED ABDUL SAMAD ASSASSINATED IN BASRA

Sat 11 January 2020:

Iraqi journalist Ahmed Abdul Samad and fellow photographer Safaa Ghali has been assassinated in the city of Basra by unknown individuals, Al Hadath sources have confirmed.

Abdul Samad, a journalist from Basra, appeared several times on the screen of Al Arabiya and Al Hadath in covering the popular demonstrations in southern Iraq.

In this video the Iraqi protesters gathering in from of Ahmed house#IraqProtests.

I want to ask where is the mainstream media outrage or is it selective.
Ahmed is not the only journalist that got targeted or murdered in Iraq and even inside #Iran

pic.twitter.com/XdY6buT3nv

— فيصل ابراهيم الشمري (@Mr_Alshammeri) January 11, 2020

#Iraqi journalist Ahmed Abdul Samad in this video a few hours before he was murder by #Iran backed militia for criticizing the Arbitrary arrests of #IraqProtests.
He asked a simple but yet powerful question.
How come there were no arrests when they protested against America? https://t.co/SVU37dq8bU

— فيصل ابراهيم الشمري (@Mr_Alshammeri) January 11, 2020

He provided the media outelts with many pictures and videos documenting the popular protests.

Safaa Ghali, a cameraman working for Iraq’s Dijlah TV, was also killed in the same attack, according to Iraqi state television and a statement posted on Dijlah TV’s website.

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