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Iraq - Journalists and media threatened on all sides

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is concerned about journalists in Iraq being hounded in connection with their reporting after Reuters Baghdad bureau chief Ned Parker had to flee the country because of threats by Shiite armed groups over his coverage of their behaviour in the newly liberated city of Tikrit. Parker was threatened on Facebook and on Al-Ahd TV ¬– a TV station owned by Asaib Ahl al-Haq, an armed group backed by Iran – in connection with a 3 April article about human rights violations by (...)

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