“ISIS executed a journalist who had worked for the Mosuliah TV in Mosul,” an informed source said, identifying the victim as Ala Mazn Abdullah.
Abdullah, executed at a military base in southern Mosul, was tried in an ISIS court for helping rescue journalists from ISIS who had then fled to the Kurdistan Region. He was condemned to death after refusing to give information about the escaped journalists, the sources said. Other details of the case were not immediately known.
Abdullah was a reporter at the Mosuliah local TV from 2007 to 2008. He was arrested last month at his home.
In November, another ISIS Sharia court imposed death verdicts against five local journalists in Mosul.
Brothers Ahmed and Aitar Rafi, Mohandis Yasir, Yasir Alqaisi, and Modhas Adari were executed in the city’s southeastern Sumar district of Mosul in November on the charge of spying for Iraqi security forces.
In recent months ISIS also has beheaded foreign journalists, including James Foley and Steven Sotlof and Japanese Kenjo Goto.
