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Miss Iraq: Death Threats target Women Media Activists after Miss Baghad was Assassinated

Miss Iraq: Death Threats target Women Media Activists after Miss Baghad was Assassinated

Middle East Monitor 10/01/2018

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Iraqi fashion model and media activist, Shaimaa Qasem, holder of the title of Miss Iraq in 2015, yesterday said that she had received “death threats.”

Qasem, who held the title of Miss Iraq in 2015, posted a short live video on Facebook’s Instagram, revealing that she had received a message read “your turn is coming.”

“Is it our fault that we are famous on social media,” she wondered, stressing: “we are being slaughtered like chickens?”

Qasem’s video comes amid uproar and resentment in Iraq. Several assassinations were recently carried out against a number of women activists in the Arab country.

On Thursday, the fashion model and blogger Tarra Fares was assassinated inside her luxuries car in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. Two days earlier, Suad Al-Ali, a civil society activist, was also shot dead in Iraq’s Basra.

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Via Middle East Monitor

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Middle East Monitor is a not-for-profit press monitoring organization, founded on 1 July 2009, and based in London. Journalists who have written for it include Amelia Smith, Diana Alghoul, Ben White, Jehan Alfarra and Jessica Purkiss. The editorial line straddles the British left and the British Muslim religious Right.

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