2008

James Glanz, New York Times Baghdad bureau chief On managing the bureau All of us live basically in walled compounds. It’s easy for us to get out in the area of Baghdad. We just go out the door and there we are in the Baghdad commercial district. Usually we’ll have some sort of missions planned…

Three reports tell CPJ about the dangers of reporting in Iraq.

CPJ asked Manuel Vázquez Portal, a Cuban writer, poet, and journalist swept up in the 2003 crackdown, to describe the year he spent in prison before being freed in 2004. He chose to describe his imprisonment in nightmare imagery. Vázquez Portal now lives and works in Miami.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights Adopted by General Assembly resolution 217 A (III) of December 10, 1948.

Compiled by María Salazar as of March 3, 2008

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