Journalists Killed in 2013 - Motive Confirmed: Bashar al-Nuaimi
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Date:
1 March 2014
Al-Mosuliya TV
October 24, 2013, in Mosul, Iraq
Unidentified gunmen shot dead Bashar al-Nuaimi, a cameraman for the local Al-Mosuliya TV channel, near his home in the Al-Nabi Sheet neighborhood, news reports said.
Murad Ghazi, deputy manager of Al-Mosuliya, told CPJ that the channel often reported critically on the local government and had recently been targeted by a smear campaign that accused it of serving U.S. interests.
Omar Ghazi, the station's deputy administrative manager, told CPJ that several journalists had decided to quit the station after al-Nuaimi was murdered. They said they felt they lacked serious protection from the government.
In December 2013, another Al-Mosuliya journalist, Nawras al-Nuaimi, was shot dead by unknown militants outside her home.
Militant groups like the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State in Iraq and Sham have historically targeted journalists in Mosul whom it considers collaborators with the U.S.-backed Iraqi government, according to CPJ research.
With the resurgence of militant groups across the country, there has been a spike in general violence in the country as well as a rash of journalist killings in Mosul.
According to the Iraqi Journalistic Freedoms Observatory, Iraqi security forces recently discovered a purported assassination list of 44 journalists during a raid on a building in Mosul that housed militants. It is not clear if any of the most recent killings were related to this list, but several journalists in Mosul say anti-government militants are targeting journalists considered supportive of the government.
Medium: | Television |
Job: | Camera Operator, Photographer |
Beats Covered: | Corruption, Culture, Politics, War |
Gender: | Male |
Local or Foreign: | Local |
Freelance: | No |
Type of Death: | Murder |
Suspected Source of Fire: | Unknown Fire |
Impunity: | Yes |
Taken Captive: | No |
Tortured: | No |
Threatened: | No |
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