{"id":26581,"date":"2011-09-12T09:40:36","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T08:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=26581"},"modified":"2011-09-12T09:40:36","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T08:40:36","slug":"iraq-well-known-journalist-shot-dead-at-his-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=26581","title":{"rendered":"Iraq: Well-known journalist shot dead at his home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well known journalist Hadia Al-Mahdi was <a title=\"Well known irreverent journalist shot dead in his home\" href=\"http:\/\/en.rsf.org\/iraq-well-known-irreverent-journalist-08-09-2011,40948.html\" target=\"_blank\">found dead at his home<\/a> in <a title=\"Index on censorship - Iraq\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/iraq\/\" target=\"_blank\">Baghdad<\/a>\u00a0on 7 September.\u00a0 The body of Al-Mahdi was found in his home in the Al-Karada district at around 7pm. He had been shot twice in the head. It is believed that his murder was politically motivated. Madhi hosted a popular talk show called \u201cTo whoever listens\u201d on Radio Demozy where he tackled a wide range of subjects including the Iraqi educational system and corruption. Mahdi\u2019s murder comes almost one month after the Iraqi parliament adopted a law on the protection of journalists on 9 August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well known journalist Hadia Al-Mahdi was found dead at his home in Baghdad\u00a0on 7 September.\u00a0 The body of Al-Mahdi was found in his home in the Al-Karada district at around 7pm. He had been shot twice in the head. It is believed that his murder was politically motivated. Madhi hosted a popular talk show called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,4060,585],"tags":[3782,7354,727,3783],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26581"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26613,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26581\/revisions\/26613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}