CPJ appeals for release of freelance journalist seized in Iraq
New York, January 9, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by the abduction of U.S. reporter Jill Carroll in Baghdad, and the murder of her Iraqi interpreter. Carroll, a freelancer on assignment in Iraq for the Christian Science Monitor, was seized on January 7 by unidentified gunmen in the Adil neighborhood of western Baghdad…
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DECEMBER 26, 2005 Posted: January 20, 2006 Phil Sands, freelancer ABDUCTED British freelance journalist Sands, 28, was freed on January 1, 2006 by U.S. soldiers who happened upon him by chance during a routine hunt for insurgents. Sands, who contributed to the San Francisco Chronicle and The Scotsman, was abducted by gunmen while on his…
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لجنة Øماية الصØÙيين 330 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10001 USA هاتÙ: (212) 465-9568 Ùاكس: (212) 465-9568 موقع الإنترنت: www.cpj.org إيميل: media@cpj.org للاتصال: جودي بلانك هاتÙ: (212) 465-1004 الرقم الÙرعي: 105 إيميل: info@cpj.org 23 كانون الأول/ديسمبر 2005 رئيس الوزراء الدكتور ابراهيم الجعÙري سÙارة الجمهورية العراقية
CPJ protests criminal prosecution of local reporter
Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists wishes to express its grave concern about the criminal prosecution of Ayad Mahmoud al-Tamimi and Ahmed Mutair Abbas, editor-in-chief and managing editor respectively of the now-defunct Iraqi daily Sada Wasit, a local newspaper in the southern city of Kut. Both men face more than 10 years in prison or heavy fines if convicted of four separate defamation charges brought by local government officials in Wasit Province in response to critical articles that they published in 2005.