(RSF/IFEX) – On 21 August, RSF issued the following information about the incommunicado detention of a journalist in Baghdad. According to RSF’s sources, last month, Dawoud al-Farhan, senior journalist and reporter for the Cairo-based Middle East News Agency, was arrested at his office and taken to the Ministry of Information. Every effort by his family […]
(RSF/IFEX) – On 21 August, RSF issued the following information about the
incommunicado detention of a journalist in Baghdad. According to RSF’s
sources, last month, Dawoud al-Farhan, senior journalist and reporter for
the Cairo-based Middle East News Agency, was arrested at his office and
taken to the Ministry of Information. Every effort by his family to
determine his place of detention and the reason why he was arrested has
failed.
Dawoud al-Farhan regularly publishes columns in the daily “Al-Iraq” and the
weekly “Al-Mousawar Al-Arabi”. He was arrested after writing several
articles about corruption and embezzlement in the government.
Recommended Action
Send appeals to President Saddam Hussein:
reveal where he is being held
that his arrest is connected with his reports in some newspapers
work freely in Iraq
Appeals To
His Excellency Saddam Hussein
President of the Republic
Presidential Palace
Karadat Marlam
Baghdad, Iraq
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