International News Safety Institute

03 March 2007

Jamal al-Zubaidi

Incident

Jamal al-Zubaidi

Cause of death

Shooting

Details

The body of an Iraqi journalist, who disappeared a week ago, was found within the precincts of al-Aamil district, according to the Iraqi Association for Defending Journalists' Rights on Saturday.

"Jamal al-Zubaidi, the managing editor of Baghdad's al-Safir (the ambassador) newspaper, was found killed in southwest Baghdad and showed signs of having been shot in the head," the association said in a statement received by the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).

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