Umm Fahad[a] (Arabic: أم فهد; born Ghufran Mahdi Sawadi (Arabic: غفران مهدي سوادي; 1996 – 26 April 2024) was an Iraqi Tik-Tok personality and internet influencer.
[2] Umm Fahad posted videos on Tik-Tok and on Instagram, often of her dancing to music.
[3] Some videos were deemed inappropriate by the Iraqi judiciary and she was once sentenced to six months in prison for "producing and publishing several films and videos containing obscene and indecent language, violating public decency and morals"[4] according to the Iraqi penal code.
Iraqi laws prohibited certain videos containing what the country's authorities deemed as things that violate public decency and morals, including "obscene or indecent language".
[5] Fahad was shot to death on 26 April 2024, in her Cadillac Escalade outside her house in Zayouna, eastern Baghdad by a motorbike gunman also wounding a female friend.