BAGHDAD (AP) — Rights monitors and security officials say the father of a missing anti-government activist believed abducted by a militia in southern Iraq has been shot and killed. Jasb Hattab Aboud had been searching for his son since his kidnapping in October 2019. The son was one of a number of activists who vanished during anti-government protests, believed to have been snatched by militias. Aboud was unusual among parents of the missing because he led a vocal campaign for his son and sought to prosecute a militia leader suspected in the kidnapping. Aboud was shot in the head on Wednesday in the southern city of Amara.
