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New17 Aug, 16:20 BAGHDAD

KH channels report TikToker's arrest over criticism of PM Zaidi

WHAT HAPPENED

At 13:08 and 13:11 on 17 August, KH-affiliated Sabereen News and Unit 10,000 reported that a security force arrested TikToker Abu al-Joud in the Baladiyat area of Baghdad because he had criticized Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi; Unit 10,000 headed its post "silencing of mouths". Nine minutes later Ashab al-Kahf's Shabab al-Islam carried the same arrest but described Abu al-Joud as a social-media celebrity belonging to the Popular Mobilization Commission. The photographs attached to all three posts show a man at a lit monument at night and do not depict an arrest.

WHO CARRIED IT · EVERY MESSAGE, LINKED
  1. Sabereen NewsKH — affiliated17 Aug, 16:08

    “Because of his criticism of "Ali al-Zaidi", a security force arrests the TikToker Abu al-Joud from the Baladiyat area.”

    بسبب انتقاده "علي الزيدي " قوة أمنية تعتقل التيك توكر ابو الجود من منطقة البلديات

  2. Unit 10,000KH — affiliated17 Aug, 16:11

    “Silencing of mouths: a security force arrests the TikToker Abu al-Joud from the Baladiyat area because of his criticism of "Ali al-Zaidi".”

    🟡تكميم الافواه ، قوة أمنية تعتقل التيك توكر ابو الجود من منطقة البلديات بسبب انتقاده "علي الزيدي "

  3. Shabab al-IslamAshab al-Kahf — owned/non-official media17 Aug, 16:20

    “Against the background of his criticism of the prime minister, the arrest of one of the social-media celebrities affiliated with the Popular Mobilization Commission, "Abu al-Joud".”

    على خلفية انتقاده لرئيس الوزراء اعتقال احد المشاهير في التواصل الاجتماعي التابع لهيئة الحشد الشعبي " ابو الجود "

In posting order. Translated by the desk, published as evidence — not endorsement. A channel name opens the message where it was posted.
WHY IT MATTERS

If the Popular Mobilization affiliation stands, the factions have two named detentions the same afternoon to build a pattern of state coercion against their own people, and the prime minister is named directly as the reason for one of them.

THE MESSAGE IN FULL · THE DESK’S OWN COPY
View the original message (Arabic)على خلفية انتقاده لرئيس الوزراء اعتقال احد المشاهير في التواصل الاجتماعي التابع لهيئة الحشد الشعبي " ابو الجود "
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