RSF criticizes Iraq on journalists
RSF has criticized the Iraqi government’s treatment of journalists, saying they are being used to distribute propaganda.
The Iraqi authorities monitor reports by journalists working in Baghdad and insist they are accompanied at all times by official minders, who decide where they may or may not go. In a letter to the Iraqi interests section in France, the Paris-based RSF described the attitude of Iraqi authorities to foreign
journalists covering the war as “scandalous, contemptuous and hostile”. “Guided bus tours organised by the authorities are insufficient and
do not meet the minimal criteria of media freedom we expect,” RSF secretary general Robert Menard said. – ABC, Watchdog slams Iraqi treatment of journalists.