Shehab Mohammad al-Hiti

Year: 2007

Nationality: Iraq

Killed by: Political Group

Location: Baghdad, Iraq

Press organization: Baghdad al-Youm

What's Shehab Mohammad al-Hiti's story?

Al-Hiti, 27, an editor for the fledgling weekly Baghdad al-Youm, was last seen leaving his home in Baghdad’s western neighborhood of Al-Jamia to go to the paper’s offices around midday, a source at the paper told CPJ. Iraqi security forces found the journalist’s body later that afternoon in Baghdad’s northeastern Ur neighborhood and transported it to Baghdad’s Al-Tib al-Adli Hospital morgue, the source said.

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