Former Miss Iraq fears she will be the next high-profile woman to be killed in the country following murder of Instagram model and three others who defied Islamic conservatives. A former Miss Iraq claims she has received death threats, telling her ‘you’re next’, just days after the murder of an Instagram model in Baghdad. Shimaa Qassem shared an emotional video with her 2.7million Instagram followers in which she claimed successful women in Iraq faced ‘being slaughtered like chickens’. Last Thursday, 22-year-old ‘influencer’ Tara Fares, whom Ms Qassem hailed as a’martyr’, was shot dead in her car in Baghdad. Progressive Iraqis say they fear for their safety following the deaths of Ms Fares and three other female entrepreneurs under mysterious circumstances in the space of a few weeks.
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