Influencer and TikToker Om Fahad was shot dead outside her home in Baghdad. We are looking for the killer. In 2023 she was convicted of sharing videos “containing indecent speeches that undermine public modesty and morality”.
She was shot and killed Om Fahad famous tiktoker And influencers Iraqi. The girl was shot dead in front of her house Baghdad. To announce what happened – according to what the English newspaper reports The Guardian – it was the Iraqi Interior Ministry reporting “a woman known on social media” killed by “unknown attackers“, and announcing the formation of “a team of specialized investigators” to understand the circumstances that led to the murder.
The young woman, whose real name was Ghufran Sawadi, she was shot while she was inside her car in the neighborhood of Zayouna. The trigger was pulled by a man aboard a motorbike. A security source said the attacker would pretend to deliver food. The news agency Al Hurray points out that another woman was injured in the attack.
Fahad had become famous on TikTok for sharing video of herself while danced to music pop dressed in form-fitting clothing and gaining tens of thousands of followers. Last year she had also been condemned to six months in prison for sharing video which, according to the Court, “contain indecent speeches that undermine public decency and morality”.
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After his conviction, the government created a committee to monitor social media sites, primarily TikTok and Youtubewhich had content deemed offensive and punish those responsible.
The independent Euro-Mediterranean Observatory for Human Rights at the time denounced “the detention and sentencing by the Iraqi authorities of social media content creators with vague accusations“, stating that this “does not justify the limitation of natural rights which is extremely worrying.”
This is not the first time something like this has happened in Iraq. Also in Baghdad, in 2018, the model and influencer Tara Fares, 22 years old, she was killed on the street by some men.
