Dais Talal, Iraq

Islamic State group militants shot Sama Mosul TV correspondent Qais Talal to death on Feb. 8, 2015 in the center of Mosul, the Iraqi Journalist Freedoms Observatory (JFO) reported. Talal – who had worked as a reporter for Shafaq news agency, Al-Rasheed TV and AL-Bayyna AL-Jadida newspaper, among others – reportedly was accused of spying and communicating with state-owned media, and reportedly had been detained for more than four months.

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