Iraqi social media influencer Ghufran Sawadi shot dead by unknown gunman

Iraqi social media influencer Ghufran Sawadi, higher often called Umm Fahad, was shot dead by an unknown gunman exterior her home in Baghdad on Friday (April 26, 2024).

The assault which passed off in Zayouna space east of Baghdad, was caught in a surveillance digital camera.

The video has gone viral on social media.

In the video, an armed man, who’s using a motorbike, might be seen gunning down the social media influencer.

A Baghdad police supply confirmed the authenticity of the video to CNN.

An investigation into the incident has been launched.

The accused has not been recognized up to now.

The nation’s Interior Minister introduced on Friday that it was ‘forming a specialised work crew to search out out the circumstances of the killing of a lady recognized on social media by unknown assailants’, reported CNN.

What did Sawadi submit on social media platforms?

Sawadi, who was well-liked on TikTok, was seen sharing her dance movies in form-fitting garments on the platform.

She was largely seen dancing to pop music.

Her movies have been earlier deemed to be inappropriate by Iraq’s judiciary.

Sawadi was sentenced to 6 months in jail for “the crime of manufacturing and publishing a number of movies and movies containing obscene and indecent language, violating public decency and morals,” an Iraqi judiciary assertion mentioned as quoted by CNN.

The unbiased Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor reacted that point and mentioned in an announcement: “Iraqi authorities should rescind all jail sentences imposed on content material creators, stop pursuing them and unjustifiably proscribing their freedoms, and chorus from utilizing the regulation to violate the rights assured to people. The authorities should respect the suitable of people to freedom of opinion, expression, and publication, and chorus from taking any motion that will undermine their freedoms and criminalise their train of their pure rights.”

Previous situations the place social media influencers have been focused in Iraq

In September 2023, Iraqi TikTok character, Noor Alsaffar, often called Noor BM, was shot dead in Baghdad.