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Baghdad: Iraqi social media influencer Om Fahad has been shot dead outside her home in Baghdad, according to local media reports.<\/p>\n
The attack happened in the capital\u2019s eastern Zayne neighbourhood on Friday.<\/p>\n
Iraq\u2019s interior ministry confirmed in a statement that a \u201cwoman known on social networking sites\u201d had been killed by \u201cunknown assailants\u201d.<\/p>\n
It added that a \u201cspecialised work team\u201d had been set up to investigate the circumstances of her death.<\/p>\n
Fahad, whose real name is Ghufran Sawadi, was reportedly shot in her car by a lone person with a gun riding a motorbike.<\/p>\n
An Iraqi security source told the AFP news agency that the attacker appeared to have been pretending to be making a food delivery.<\/p>\n
The US-owned Al Hurra news agency, meanwhile, reported that another woman was injured in the attack.<\/p>\n
Fahad became well-known on TikTok for sharing videos of herself dancing to pop music in form-hugging clothes \u2013 earning her tens of thousands of followers.<\/p>\n
She was sentenced to six months in prison last year for sharing videos that the court ruled undermined \u201cmodesty and public morality\u201d.<\/p>\n
This followed the launch of a government committee to monitor social media sites for content it deemed offensive and punish those responsible for it.<\/p>\n
The independent Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said at the time: \u201cIraqi authorities\u2019 detention and conviction of several social media content creators on vague charges that do not justify the restriction of natural rights is extremely concerning.\u201d<\/p>\n
More recently, a feud between Fahad and fellow influencer Dalia Naeem has escalated.<\/p>\n
Naeem \u2013 who is known as \u201cIraqi Barbie\u201d due to her many plastic surgery procedures \u2013 had been threatening to expose Fahad\u2019s alleged relationship with senior Iraqi officials, media reports say.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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