An Iraqi journalist has been kidnapped by Islamic State militants who are threatening to behead him if he refuses to work for them, media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) warned Thursday. Raad Mohammed al-Azzawi, a cameraman, was taken prisoner on September 7 in Samarra, a city around 120 kilometres (75 miles) **rth of Baghdad, RSF said in a statement. "The jihadist organisation has an**unced that it plans to carry out its decapitation threat because the journalist refused to work for the Islamic State (IS)," it added. He joins a growing list of Iraqi journalists who have been captured or threatened by militants from IS, a radical Islamist group that has seized a swathe of Iraq and Syria and has committed widespread atrocities.
09-11-2014, 11:23 PM
Islamic State threatens to behead Iraqi journalist: RSF
An Iraqi journalist has been kidnapped by Islamic State militants who are threatening to behead him if he refuses to work for them, media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) warned Thursday. Raad Mohammed al-Azzawi, a cameraman, was taken prisoner on September 7 in Samarra, a city around 120 kilometres (75 miles) **rth of Baghdad, RSF said in a statement. "The jihadist organisation has an**unced that it plans to carry out its decapitation threat because the journalist refused to work for the Islamic State (IS)," it added. He joins a growing list of Iraqi journalists who have been captured or threatened by militants from IS, a radical Islamist group that has seized a swathe of Iraq and Syria and has committed widespread atrocities.
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