Iraqi Female Journalist Dead and Threats of Beheading Female TV Broadcasters in Gaza Strip
CPJ NEWS: Iraqi journalist who endured abductions, threats is slain in Mosul
New York, June 7, 2007—An Iraqi journalist who had been abducted, shot and threatened with death was slain in Mosul today by unidentified gunmen who answered her cell phone after the killing and told the caller "she went to hell."The Committee to Protect Journalists condemned the murder of Sahar Hussein Ali al-Haydari, 44, a correspondent for the National Iraqi News Agency (NINA) and the independent news agency Aswat al-Iraq and a contributor to a number of other Iraqi media outlets. She also was a journalist trainee and correspondent for the London-based Institute for War and Peace Reporting, an organization that trains local journalists in war coverage."We are outraged by the murder of our colleague Sahar Hussein Ali al-Haydari and offer our condolences to her family and friends," said Joel Simon, CPJ's executive director. "The constant threats and abductions she endured, and her eventual murder, are stark reminders of the sacrifice she made to tell the Iraqi story to the world. Her death is even harder to bear because she was a personal friend and colleague." Al-Haydari visited CPJ's offices in New York in late 2005, and CPJ helped relocate her husband and four children to Damascus, Syria, after she received death threats. Al-Haydari was shopping in Mosul's Al-Hadbaa neighborhood when four unidentified gunmen got out of their vehicle, gunned her down and fled the scene, taking her cell phone with them, local journalists told CPJ...
In the meantime, the lives of female journalists in Gaza strip is threatned by Islamist who promise to cut their throats from vein to vein. The fanatical Gaza Islamist group "Swords of Truth" threatened to "cut the throats from vein to vein" of female TV broadcasters if they don't wear strict Islamic dress.
But, this didn't stop several brave female Gaza reporters from protesting against this Islamic threat .
The women berated the Islamist group, via BBC:
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New York, June 7, 2007—An Iraqi journalist who had been abducted, shot and threatened with death was slain in Mosul today by unidentified gunmen who answered her cell phone after the killing and told the caller "she went to hell."The Committee to Protect Journalists condemned the murder of Sahar Hussein Ali al-Haydari, 44, a correspondent for the National Iraqi News Agency (NINA) and the independent news agency Aswat al-Iraq and a contributor to a number of other Iraqi media outlets. She also was a journalist trainee and correspondent for the London-based Institute for War and Peace Reporting, an organization that trains local journalists in war coverage."We are outraged by the murder of our colleague Sahar Hussein Ali al-Haydari and offer our condolences to her family and friends," said Joel Simon, CPJ's executive director. "The constant threats and abductions she endured, and her eventual murder, are stark reminders of the sacrifice she made to tell the Iraqi story to the world. Her death is even harder to bear because she was a personal friend and colleague." Al-Haydari visited CPJ's offices in New York in late 2005, and CPJ helped relocate her husband and four children to Damascus, Syria, after she received death threats. Al-Haydari was shopping in Mosul's Al-Hadbaa neighborhood when four unidentified gunmen got out of their vehicle, gunned her down and fled the scene, taking her cell phone with them, local journalists told CPJ...
In the meantime, the lives of female journalists in Gaza strip is threatned by Islamist who promise to cut their throats from vein to vein. The fanatical Gaza Islamist group "Swords of Truth" threatened to "cut the throats from vein to vein" of female TV broadcasters if they don't wear strict Islamic dress.
But, this didn't stop several brave female Gaza reporters from protesting against this Islamic threat .
The women berated the Islamist group, via BBC:
"Shame on you," news anchor Sally Abed - one of 15 female anchors for Palestinian TV - said on Sunday, addressing the Islamist group. "The people working in this institution are your people - if it's not your sister, it's your mother."
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