IS Detains Four Journalism Students in Iraq: Watchdog
| Aug 01,2015
The Islamic State group has detained four journalism students in Mosul on charges of leaking information from the jihadist bastion to Iraqi and media organisations, a media watchdog said today.
The four were taken from their homes in different parts of the northern city late Friday, the Journalistic Freedoms Observatory (JFO), an Iraqi organisation, said in a statement.
Mosul activists and a former security official confirmed to AFPthat four Mosul University students had been detained and taken to an unknown location.
A journalist who was arrested for similar reasons in June, Jala al-Abadi, was executed in mid-July.
According to JFO, IS holds at least eight journalists from the province of Nineveh, of which Mosul is the capital.
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