Iraq

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a CPJ press release: Iraq: Explosive Device Rocks NBC News Baghdad Bureau September 25, 2003-The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) strongly condemns a bomb attack on a Baghdad hotel this morning, in which a journalist from the U.S. network NBC was injured. The attack may have been aimed specifically at […]

(IPI/IFEX) – The following is an IPI press release: Vienna, 24 September 2003 IPI Calls on U.S. Military to Review Investigation Procedures into the Deaths of Journalists The International Press Institute (IPI) called upon the U.S. military authorities to thoroughly review its investigation procedures into the deaths of journalists mistakenly killed by U.S. forces in […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 23 September 2003 CPJ press release: IRAQ: TV stations sanctioned Reporter detained New York, September 23, 2003-The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is deeply troubled by the decision of Iraq’s Governing Council to sanction Arabic satellite channels Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiyya. Today, Iraq’s U.S.-appointed Governing Council announced that it would […]

(HRW/IFEX) – The following is a Human Rights Watch press release: Iraq: U.S. Military Responses Imperil Journalists (New York, September 24, 2003) — Overaggressive reactions by U.S. military forces in Iraq are putting journalists and other civilians in unnecessary danger, Human Rights Watch said today. On September 18, U.S. army troops opened fire on an […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 22 September 2003 CPJ press release: IRAQ: CPJ DISMAYED BY U.S. INVESTIGATION New York, September 22, 2003-The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is dismayed at the results of the U.S. military’s investigation into the August 17 killing of Reuters cameraman Mazen Dana, which concluded that U.S. soldiers acted within […]

(RSF/IFEX) – The following is an RSF press release: Progress in hunt for clues about missing media workers Reporters Without Borders said today it was encouraged by progress in a British military police inquiry into the fate of two missing media workers – French cameraman Frederic Nérac and Lebanese interpreter Hussein Osman, of the British […]

(IFJ/IFEX) – The following is a 13 September 2003 IFJ press release: World Journalists Demand Justice As US Gunship Attack on TV Reporter is Exposed The International Federation of Journalists said today that revelations about how an injured television reporter being rushed to hospital was fired upon by US forces in Iraq raises “grave new […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is an 11 September 2003 CPJ press release: CORRESPONDENT AND CAMERAMAN DETAINED IN IRAQ New York, September 11, 2003-The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is deeply concerned about the overnight detention of two Al-Jazeera journalists by U.S. forces in Iraq. U.S. troops detained correspondent Atwar Bahgat and her cameraman, Yasser Bahgat […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is an 18 August 2003 CPJ letter to U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld: The Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld Secretary of Defense The Pentagon Washington, D.C. 20301 Via facsimile: (703) 697 9080 Dear Secretary Rumsfeld: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is shocked by the death of Reuters television cameraman Mazen […]

(IPI/IFEX) – In an 18 August 2003 letter to United States (U.S.) Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, IPI condemned the shooting of a journalist by the U.S. military in Iraq. According to information placed before IPI, on 17 August, award-winning Reuters journalist Mazen Dana was shot dead by a U.S. tank crew as he was filming […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 13 August 2003 CPJ press release: Iraq: Journalist briefly detained and handcuffed New York, August 13, 2003-The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is disturbed that U.S. forces forcibly detained Hassan Fattah, editor of the English-language daily Iraq Today, on Monday, August 11, after preventing him from attending a press […]

(IFJ/IFEX) – The following is an IFJ media release: Journalists Accuse US of “Cynical Whitewash” Over Report Into Baghdad Hotel Media Killings The International Federation of Journalists today described a Pentagon report over the killing of two journalists when United States troops fired on a hotel filled with media staff in Baghdad during the Iraq […]

(RSF/IFEX) – On 31 July 2003, RSF deplored the worsening attitude of American troops towards journalists in Iraq and urged United States (U.S.) Administrator Paul Bremer to explain why two Iranian journalists, Said Aboutaleb and Soheil Karimi, of the public television station IRIB, have been held since 1 July for alleged “security violations”. The organisation […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 29 July 2003 CPJ letter to Paul Bremer, senior administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq: July 29, 2003 The Honorable L. Paul Bremer III Senior Administrator Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq C/o The Pentagon Washington, D.C. 20301 Via facsimile: (703) 697-9080 Dear Mr. Bremer: The Committee to […]

(RSF/IFEX) – The following is a 22 July 2003 RSF press release: The Iraqi media three months after the war: a new but fragile freedom Reporters Without Borders called today for clear and coherent laws to replace restrictive media regulations imposed by the US and British forces occupying Iraq. In a report on developments in […]

(IFJ/IFEX) – The following is an IFJ media release: Baghdad is Still a War Zone Warns IFJ After Sniper Kills Freelance Reporter The International Federation of Journalists today warned that Baghdad is “still a deadly war zone where no journalist’s safety can be guaranteed,” after a weekend in which a sniper shot and killed a […]