Abdelqadir Fassouk
Year: 2016
Nationality: Libya
Killed by: Political Group
Location: Sirte, Libya
Press organization: Arraed Satellite TV
What's Abdelqadir Fassouk's story?
Arraed television correspondent and Libyan photojournalist Abdelqadir Fassouk was fatally shot on July 21, 2016, while covering a battle between government-allied forces and the Islamic State militant group, in the Ouagadougou neighborhood of the outskirts of the coastal city of Sirte, Arraed reported. Fayez Swiry, a supervising news editor with Arraed channel, a satellite news channel based in Istanbul, told the Committee to Protect Journalists that Fassouk was on an assignment with the station, covering fighting between forces loyal to Libya’s unity government and the Islamic State group when he was shot. He added that medical staff who saw Fassouk’s body and Brazilian photojournalist Andre Liohn, who was with Fassouk at the time of his death, told the station that Fassouk had been shot by a sniper.
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