ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — A group of ISIS fighters launched an attack on Yahiya Abed Ahmed, the director of Mosul's Rasheed Radio, and shot him to death, the Iraqi Observatory for Press Freedoms announced Sunday.
“Islamic State elements launched an attack at dawn on Saturday on the home of Yahiya Abed Ahmed, the manager of Mosul's Rasheed Radio, in a very ugly way and shot him to death,” the observatory said in a release.
The militants later returned to Ahmed’s house, stole his personal computer and told Ahmed’s family to come and take his corpse, the observatory added.
In early 2015, ISIS began broadcasting its own programming on 92.5 FM out of Mosul, calling it Al-Bayan Radio. According to an official with the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Mosul, ISIS began Al-Bayan after seizing Rasheed Radio’s offices and using its equipment for its own broadcasts.
Al-Bayan can be heard as far away as Erbil and Duhok, and broadcasts in Kurdish, Turkish, Arabic, Russian, French and English.
According to the observatory, the number of journalists executed in Mosul since ISIS took over the city in June 2014 has increased to 46.
