Amer Malallah al-Rashidi

Year: 2007

Nationality: Iraq

Killed by: Political Group

Location: Mosul, Iraq

Press organization: Al-Mosuliya

What's Amer Malallah al-Rashidi's story?

Al-Rashidi, 42, a camera operator for the private satellite channel Al-Mosuliya, left a relative’s house in Mosul’s eastern Al-Jazair neighborhood in the evening to catch a taxi when gunmen in a car opened fire, a source at the station told CPJ. The source said that after al-Rashidi fell to the ground, one of the gunmen got out of the car and shot him at close range.

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