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Media: IG militants killed journalist in Iraq
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- 20 May, 2015
- 09:46
Baku. 20 May. REPORT.AZ/ IG militants killed journalist in Iraq who refused to swear allegiance to them. Report, informs citing the TASS, the extremists killed veteran of television journalism Firas al-Bahri in Mosul in northern Iraq.
"Militants demanded the journalist to swear allegiance to them, but he refused, and he was killed" - leads channel words of the head offices of the Kurdistan Journalists' Syndicate in Mosul Akram Suleiman.
Militants kept al-Bahri in captivity for about three weeks.
According to Suleiman, extremists murdered over seven reporters in Mosul. " IG militants hold another ten journalists in secret place", he said.
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