Submitted: February 26, 2010 - 3:55pm
Originally published: February 26, 2010
Last updated: February 26, 2010 - 3:57pm
Originally published: February 26, 2010
Last updated: February 26, 2010 - 3:57pm
Source:
Washington Post
Author:
Ernesto Londoño
Location:
Baghdad, Iraq
Iraq has been the world's deadliest country for journalists since the war began in 2003. At least 140 have been killed, many of them targeted by militia and insurgent groups, according to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists. Although freedom of the press is guaranteed in Iraq's 2005 constitution, lawmakers have not passed legislation to enforce it. Government officials and private citizens have increasingly resorted to litigation to muffle critical reporting. And a commission that reports to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki recently unveiled guidelines that Iraqi journalists and press freedom advocates call authoritarian.
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