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Hisham al-Hashimi was killed near his home in the Ziyouna district on Monday night by two gunmen riding a motorbike. No group has said it was behind the shooting, but he had reportedly been...
- A Sought-After Source
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- Corruption Is Everywhere
Hisham al-Hashimi’s rise to becoming one of the most influential analysts in Iraq was not typical. Before the US and British-led invasion of the country in 2003, he was jailed by Saddam Hussein for anti-government activities and then released before the regime was toppled. At the time, clerics got into his head. He travelled to the northern mountai...
October 2019 was a watershed moment in Iraq’s modern history. Like most Iraqis, Hisham was shocked and disgusted by the Iraqi government’s violent response to a mass uprising calling for revolution that engulfed the centre and south of the country, including his city Baghdad. Under the premiership of Adil Abdul-Mahdi, state forces which also includ...
One of the last times I spoke with Hisham at length was a few days before his killing. He had spent much of the conversation frustrated that the new government was not serious enough about fighting corruption. The political parties still controlled the system. Hisham wanted Iraq’s so-called reformist leaders to make bold moves, since they now occup...
Mar 25, 2024 · An Iraq court has acquitted a police officer previously convicted and sentenced to death for leading a group that gunned down well-known analyst and government adviser Hisham al-Hashemi more...
May 8, 2023 · A Baghdad criminal court has sentenced to death a former police officer convicted of killing prominent analyst Hisham al-Hashimi, a critic of powerful militias whose murder in 2020 sparked...
May 7, 2023 · An Iraqi court on Sunday sentenced to death a police officer blamed for leading a group that gunned down well-known analyst and government adviser Hisham al-Hashemi three years ago in Baghdad.
Jul 16, 2021 · Suspects in the murder of Iraq’s prominent academic and government adviser Hisham al-Hashemi have been arrested, Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi said on Friday.
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Jul 16, 2021 · Iraqi TV shows suspect confess to murdering prominent advisor. A poster depicting the former government advisor and political analyst Hisham al-Hashemi, who was killed by gunmen is seen at...
