A police officer with the rank of lieutenant confesses to killing the Iraqi researcher Hisham Al-Hashemi
On Friday, Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi announced the "arrest of the killers" of the researcher Hisham Al-Hashemi, who was assassinated in Baghdad about a year ago, and "confessions" broadcast on public television stated that the main perpetrator was a police officer.
Al-Kazemi said in a tweet on Twitter, "We promised to arrest the killers of Hisham Al-Hashemi, and we fulfilled the promise."
Shortly thereafter, public television broadcast the “confessions” of a man who said he was the main perpetrator of the assassination. His name is Ahmed al-Kinani, 36, a first lieutenant in the police.
The officer, with the rank of first lieutenant at the Ministry of Interior, Ahmed Hamdawi al-Kinani, confessed on the official "Al-Iraqiya" TV that he belonged to a group of four people riding two bikes and a car that went to al-Hashemi's house and shot him with a government-type cloak pistol and left the place immediately.
Al-Iraqiya TV stated that the accused had openly confessed to carrying out the assassination in front of the investigative committee in the presence of a delegated lawyer on the eleventh of this month.
The television added that four people were arrested in total.
Hisham al-Hashemi, a specialist in extremist movements, has a global reputation and a well-known face in civil society. He was assassinated in front of his home in the Zayouna neighborhood, east of Baghdad, on July 6, 2020.
The assassination of the researcher left a wide shock in Iraq, and on the one-year anniversary of the incident, a gathering was organized in Tahrir Square in central Baghdad, which represented the main gathering place in the capital for activists of the popular uprising that began at the end of 2019.
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