Reporters Without Borders published a report in January this year criticising attacks on press freedom in Iraq, where the authorities have arbitrarily limited issuing visas to the very many foreign journalists asking for them.
Foreign journalists cannot freely work or move around in Iraq. In recent weeks, several have been deported. Canadian Scott Taylor, correspondent for Canada's Sun newspaper group and editor of the military magazine Esprit de Corps, was expelled on 9 March accused of spying for Israel. Teresa Bo, of the Spanish daily La Razón, was deported on 12 March for not having used the "appropriate" words to describe the Iraqi government. The next day, David Filipov, a reporter for the U.S. daily the Boston Globe, was deported to Jordan for using his sat-phone from his hotel room.
Entitled "The Iraqi media:25 years of relentless repression", the full report is available on the website: http://www.rsf.org
Christine Poumarède, 19 March 2003
Reporters sans frontières
International Secretariat
Middle East desk
5, rue Geoffroy-Marie 75009 Paris France
Tel: (33) 1 44 83 84 84
Fax: (33) 1 45 23 11 51
E-mail: middle-east@rsf.org
http://www.rsf.org
http://www.press-freedom.org
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Foreign journalists cannot freely work or move around in Iraq. In recent weeks, several have been deported. Canadian Scott Taylor, correspondent for Canada's Sun newspaper group and editor of the military magazine Esprit de Corps, was expelled on 9 March accused of spying for Israel. Teresa Bo, of the Spanish daily La Razón, was deported on 12 March for not having used the "appropriate" words to describe the Iraqi government. The next day, David Filipov, a reporter for the U.S. daily the Boston Globe, was deported to Jordan for using his sat-phone from his hotel room.
Entitled "The Iraqi media:25 years of relentless repression", the full report is available on the website: http://www.rsf.org
Christine Poumarède, 19 March 2003
Reporters sans frontières
International Secretariat
Middle East desk
5, rue Geoffroy-Marie 75009 Paris France
Tel: (33) 1 44 83 84 84
Fax: (33) 1 45 23 11 51
E-mail: middle-east@rsf.org
http://www.rsf.org
http://www.press-freedom.org
Please continue...