Hisham Fares al-Adhami
Year: 2019
Nationality: Iraq
Killed by: Military Officials,Paramilitary Group
Location: Baghdad, Iraq
Press organization: Freelance
What's Hisham Fares al-Adhami's story?
An unidentified assailant shot and killed Iraqi reporter Hisham Fares al-Adhami while he was covering protests in central Baghdad on October 4, 2019, killing him instantly, according to news reports as well as the journalist’s brother and Jumana Mumtaz, a board member of the independent journalists’ syndicate National Union of Journalists in Iraq, both of whom spoke to CPJ via messaging app. Al-Adhami was covering the protests on Baghdad’s Al-Tayyaran Square when was hit in the back by a live round, killing him on the spot, according to those news reports. Hadi Jalo Maree, head of the Iraqi Observatory for Press Freedom, a local advocacy group, was cited in those reports as saying that al-Adhami was killed by sniper fire.
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