The Islamic State has executed a TV journalist in Iraq's northern city of Mosul who refused to join the militant group, according to a local media report.
Veteran TV journalist Firas al-Bahri was killed by IS on Tuesday, broadcaster Rudaw quoted the head of the Kurdistan Journalists Syndicate's Mosul branch as saying.
"They asked him to do Baiat [an Islamic practice of pledging allegiance] with Daesh [the Arabic acronym for IS], but he refused to do so. Finally, they killed him today,” Akram Suleiman told Rudaw.
Rudaw's report did not state how Bahri was allegedly executed.
He was the seventh journalists from IS-held Mosul to reportedly been executed by the group and ten others are being held hostage by IS in unknown locations, he said.
Bahri was said to have been held captive for nearly three weeks before his death, according to other reports.
In October, IS issued strict rules for journalists stating they must swear allegiance to the group and obtain its approval for all reports, Rudaw said.
Local and foreign journalists are reported to have been murdered since Since IS overran Mosul in June last year.
