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January 6, 2016

Female Journalist Ruqia Hassan Murdered by ISIS
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The Islamic State has reportedly murdered a journalist who wrote about
life in the ISIS-occupied Syrian city of Raqqa. Ruqia Hassan was
reportedly killed in September, but activists say ISIS hijacked her
social media accounts and used them to claim she was alive. A member of
the activist group Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently said that before
her death, Hassan said, "I'm in Raqqa and I received death threats, and
when Isis [arrests] me and kills me it's ok because ... I have dignity.
Its better than [living] in humiliation with Isis." Hassan was 30 years
old.


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