1 August 2015 - 12:48
ISIS abducts four students from Media College in Mosul

ISIS organization kidnapped four students studying at the University of Mosul in the Faculty of Arts Department of the media, After attacking their homes in different parts of the city.

ISIS organization kidnapped four students studying at the University of Mosul in the Faculty of Arts Department of the media, After attacking their homes in different parts of the city.

According to the Journalistic Freedoms Observatory (JFO), quoting a representative in Nineveh province said according to a statement that "ISIS elements have launched a campaign looking for students in the Media College late Friday night and abducted them on charges of communicating with Iraqi and foreign news organizations."

ISIS organization took the four students in (al-Ghazlani prison) to display the legitimate judge of the organization.

According to local residents of the city, the four students who were kidnapped, "are accused by the organization of publishing news and information in the mass Iraqi and foreign media for being outstanding students in the College ". As they have been told by ISIS elements when carrying out the kidnapping.

According to the Journalistic Freedoms Observatory statistics (JFO), ISIS organization is still holding eight writers , journalists and photographers in Nineveh province. The bulk of them were kidnapped in the tenth since June of 2014, as the journalist Muhannad al-Aqidi, the journalist and cameraman , Ali al-Nwofali , the programs presenter in "al-Mosiliya" channel , Maysaloon al-Jwadi and the journalist and writer , Jamal al-Masri.

While the organization kidnapped at the end of December 2014 three others, from Ain agency ; the correspondent ,Mohamed Ibrahim , his brother, Musab al-Ibrahim, who works as a photographer in the same agency and the correspondent of “Al-Mosiliya TV channel , Mahmoud Abdul Aziz.

Journalistic Freedoms Observatory (JFO) calls on the UN Security Council and its member states at the United Nations to adopt the call of Reporters Without Borders organization to refer the situation in Syria and Iraq to the International Criminal Court on committing war against journalists in both countries, where journalists and workers with them are exposed to kidnapping , murder, slaughter, executions crimes and various forms of torture and inhuman treatment, not to mention the detentions and arbitrary detention, which fall under war crimes under the provisions of international laws.



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