Channel 4 | Unreported World | Iraq’s Social Media Martyrs

IRAQ | Social Media Martyrs

They’re famous. People want them dead. Sahar Zand investigates.

Reporter Sahar Zand and director Katie Arnold are in Iraq to meet its new social media stars.

Huge nationwide protests against corruption have been making headlines, but these young millennials are taking on power in a different way, by celebrating beauty, fashion and rap. They’ve got millions of followers, but, as Unreported World finds out, fame can have deadly consequences.