MediaWatch:Reports
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Twenty Interviews and Five Conversations with "High Value Detainee # 1" in 2004
After Freedom of Information Act requests were made by the independent NGO, The National Security Archive, transcripts of 20 formal interviews and at least 5 "casual conversations" the FBI held with Saddam Hussein are made available, held after his capture by U.S. troops in December 2003. Interesting stuff.
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Newspaper To Be Sued For Printing MP’s Comments, Radio Station Raided
The
Journalistic Freedoms Observatory in Iraq has two new reports which show just a few of the challenges Iraqi news organizations face. The incidents that are featured in the JFO reports came less than a week after
World Press Freedom Day, when journalists, their unions, and some government officials gathered to address the rights of the Iraqi journalist.
After intended arrests of Trade Ministry officials, and even a shootout between its guards and government security forces over corruption charges, Al-Mashriq newspaper printed quotes from four MPs, who accused...
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The Committe to Protect Journalists Sends a Letter to KRG Leadership
The Committee to Protect Journalists (
www.cpj.org) has just sent
a letter to the KRG Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani, expressing concern over several press violations in Iraq Kurdistan. While CPJ executive director Joel Simon acknowledges “some steps” the KRG has made to improve press freedom, the letter is very clear about deficiencies which...
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Advocacy Group Warns of Politicization of Refugee Returns in New Field Report
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Think Tank Gathers Iraqi Academics, Questions "Surge" Success
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Iraqi Women Recount Hardships After 2003 in New Oxfam Report
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Latest Stats on Iraq's Displaced; Nearly 90% From Three Provinces
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A Turkmen Perspective on the Recent Vote in Iraq's Diverse North
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IFJ's 2008 Report on Worldwide Media Casualties
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Saturday's Iraqi Provincial Elections Could Be "Turning Point": Crisis Group
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Institute for Study of War: Backgrounder for the Provincial Elections
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IOM: Services Not Ready for Homeward Flow of Refugees; Agency's Latest Stats
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Human Rights First's Recommendation for the New US Administration
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IMDC's New Report Gives Blow-By-Blow Account of Forced Migration in Iraq
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New Brookings-Bern Report: "Minorities, Displacement and Iraq's Future"
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With 11 Deaths, Iraq Tops CPJ List, For Sixth Year Running
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Flagship Court "Is Failing" to Meet Due Process and Fairness Standards
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NAF: Iraq 4th-Highest Recipient of American Arms; US Leads World in Transfers
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US on List of Jailers for Five Consecutive Years; Award for Bilal Hussein
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McClatchy Publishes Translation of Arabic Text
