Om Fahad (TikToker) Death,

Some Lesser Known Facts About Om Fahad

• Om Fahad started making videos on social media applications such as TikTok and Instagram in 2022. The videos showed her dancing to pop music and wearing tight body-hugging clothes.

  

• In January 2023, the Iraqi Interior Ministry launched a campaign to identify social media influencers whose content was objectionable as per the social norms of Iraqi society.

• A web portal was created by Iraqi authorities where more than 50,000 people submitted their complaints about internet personalities including her.

• She first came into the headlines in 2023 when she was jailed for six months by Iraqi authorities for breach of modesty and public morality.

• Her arrest was criticised by many human rights organisations such as Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor which claimed that her prison sentence was an attempt to restrict public freedom in Iraq.

• After getting released from jail, she again posted videos of herself dancing to music and wearing Western clothes.

  

• In 2024, she got into a fight with another Iraqi influencer named Dalia Naeem aka Iraqi Barbie, who underwent 43 surgeries to look like a Barbie doll. Naeem claimed that Fahad was in a relationship with a senior Iraqi government official.

  

• On the night of 26 April 2024, she was shot dead by a bike-borne unidentified attacker outside her home in Zayouna district.

• In a video that went viral after her murder, the killer can be seen walking slowly towards her SUV when she was sitting inside it. He then fired at her, killing her on the spot, and running from the scene after taking her phone.

• Iraqi Interior Ministry announced that they would form a team of specialists to investigate her death.

• Many people from around the world paid tribute to her on social media, remembering her as an advocate of free speech.