Hundreds marched through the streets of Basra carrying symbolic coffins, their pictures and Iraqi flags. One mourner told AFP: “What happened was an attempt to scare people. But now, everyone in Basra has come out to mourn Ahmad and his colleague Safaa. It was clearly an attempt to silence people.”
The two reporters were in a car near a police station in Basra when armed men in a 4×4 approached them and opened fire.
“Armed men attacked them and sprayed them with bullets on Friday night, which killed Abdessamad. His cameraman was taken to the city hospital, where he died,” the JFO said in a statement. It said that two weeks before he died, Abdessamad had sent the JFO video testimony about “threats he received from militias because of his criticism of Iran in his coverage.”
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