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    Fears after targeting the media in Iraq .. «shock» international ... and threats to journalists and

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    [size=52]Fears after targeting the media in Iraq .. «shock» international ... and threats to journalists and their relatives[/size]

    [size=45]Tuesday - 9 Safar 1441 - October 8, 2019 AD Issue number [14924]
    Baghdad: «Middle East» has
    raised a series of attacks and threats affected the media several in Iraq , the United Nations concern, journalists and activists are demanding the government to prevent «silence» the media which covered the protests.
    According to Agence France-Presse, the intrusions that took place over the weekend reinforced concerns about freedom of expression, which affected the first by the authorities to block the Internet completely, after the start of an anti-government protest movement in the capital Baghdad and several southern cities.
    On Saturday evening, Arabic-language NRT channels, headquartered in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, al-Arabiya al-Hadath, and the local Tigris TV, were raided by unknown assailants, they said in a statement. The channel «NRT» that the gunmen smashed the equipment, prompting them to stop broadcasting temporarily, and seized the phones of employees.
    For its part, Al-Arabiya television published a surveillance camera showing about a dozen men in military uniforms and helmets storming its Baghdad office, removing screens from walls and sabotage. Al-Arabiya pointed out that it had received "guarantees" from the office of Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi to investigate the incident.
    The UN representative in Iraq, Hines-Blachart, said she was "shocked by the sabotage of intimidation by masked gunmen." "Government efforts are needed to protect journalists; free media is the best guarantee of strong democracy."
    A security source said that another local channel (Al-Nahrain) had been raided its headquarters, and destroyed its equipment, in addition to receiving channels «Hana Baghdad» and «good» threats. "We have received direct threats about our coverage of the protests," said a journalist at Al-Rasheed TV, which has covered the protests closely and accused security forces of indiscriminate violence. The journalist, who asked not to be identified: «They told us: either you change your line of liberation, or your fate will be similar to (NRT) and the rest (...) So we preferred to limit our coverage».
    Over the past week, civilians and activists in the south also reported receiving text messages and phone calls threatening them and their families. Mazen Alwan, from the channel «Tigris», the National Union of Iraqi journalists in the second day of the protests that «coverage of the protests is very difficult, and different from the usual coverage of events, because everything that happens to the demonstrators exposed to media teams».
    Iraq ranks 156th out of 180 countries on the Reporters Without Borders 'World Press Freedom Index 2019 list. Reporters Without Borders
    criticized security forces' restrictions on journalists as a "disproportionate and unjustified restriction on the right to information." "Instead of banning all journalistic activities, the security forces and local authorities have a duty to ensure the safety of journalists so that they can complete their reports," said Sabrina Benoui, head of the Middle East office.
    Ziad al-Ajili, head of the Journalistic Freedoms Observatory, said this was the first time that "we have seen similar attempts to intimidate" the media. "These are organized operations to silence the media and are based on advance planning, which is the main act of suppressing the demonstrators, and of course blocking the Internet is part of that," he said, warning that there was "a fear of other attacks."
    The wave of protests began on Tuesday in the capital Baghdad and several southern cities, where demonstrators, mostly young people, called for the prosecution of corrupt people and the provision of jobs, after a call on social media. The next day, the authorities restricted access to websites, especially Facebook and Instagram, before completely blocking Internet access throughout Iraq, except in the north. The demonstrators promised the move an attempt to prevent them from publishing pictures and videos of the protests that killed more than a hundred people, including security men, according to official statistics.


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