06 May 2010
Sardasht Osman
Shooting
A 23 year old student of the University of Salahadin, who also worked as a journalist, was kidnapped and murdered in the city of Mosul, reported local media outlets.
Sardasht Osman was kidnapped by a group of armed men from in front of the Language Department of the University of Salahadin where he was a final year English student. One report said the student could have been kidnapped because of an article that he had written on a high ranking member of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).
A close friend said Osman worked as a journalist and his last story was about a high ranking member of the KRG that is why – according to his friend - “it is suspected that his kidnapping be a result of this article.” Bashdar Osman, the brother of the victim, said his brother was threatened a number of times via mobile phone calls because he wrote about the [KRG] authorities.
