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Attacks on the Press | Iraq

Attacks on the Press 2009: Iraq

Top Developments
•  Fatalities and abductions plummet as security situation improves.
•  Prime minister, others file lawsuits to harass media. Kurdish courts jail six journalists.

Key Statistic
4: Journalists killed in connection to their work, the lowest tally since the war began in 2003.

Four Iraqi journalists were killed because of their work as the press continued to face great challenges and risks. Nevertheless, the death toll dropped to its lowest point since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, and, for the first time in six years, Iraq was not the world’s deadliest nation for journalists. (It was replaced by the Philippines.) No journalists or media workers were reported abducted, reflecting another steep drop from prior years.
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February 16, 2010 12:31 AM ET |
Tags: Ibrahim Jassam, Nouri al-Maliki, Soran Mama Hama, Suhaib Adnan
Alerts | Iraq

Two Iraqi journalists killed, four more injured

New York, March 10, 2009--The Committee to Protect Journalists mourns the deaths today of‎ Al-Baghdadia TV correspondent Haidar Hashim Suhail and the channel's cameraman Suhaib Adnan, who were among more than 30 people who were killed when a suicide bomber wearing an explosive belt detonated himself in the town of Abu Ghraib, south of Baghdad. 

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March 10, 2009 3:37 PM ET |
Tags: Haidar Hashim Suhail, Killed, Suhaib Adnan
Killed | Iraq

Haidar Hashim Suhail

Haidar Hashim Suhail, a correspondent, and Suhaib Adnan, a cameraman, both working with the Cairo-based Al-Baghdadia satellite channel, were among more than 30 people who were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up in the town of  Abu Ghraib, in Anbar province, his colleagues told CPJ.

Suhail, 30, Adnan, 25, and a group of journalists were accompanying Brigadier General Mard Abdul Hassan, head of the Tribal Affairs division at the Ministry of Interior, to a tribal reconciliation gathering in Abu Ghraib. They were interviewing residents when the suicide bomber, wearing a military uniform, detonated himself, cameraman Raid Qassim told CPJ.Four more journalists suffered injuries in the attack. Ibrahim al-Katib, correspondent with the state-run Al-Iraqiya TV, was seriously injured in the head, suffered internal bleeding, and underwent surgery at al-Yarmuk hospital in  Baghdad, his colleagues told CPJ. Qassim, assistant cameraman Uday Munzir, and driver Fawzi Aidan, all working with Al-Iraqiya, also suffered minor injuries, Qassim told CPJ.
March 10, 2009 12:00 AM ET |
Tags: Haidar Hashim Suhail, Suhaib Adnan

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