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Iraq: News website latest target in government's legal offensive against independent media
Sources News Release
http://www.sources.com/Releases/NR410.htm
Publisher: Reporters without Borders
Date Written: 20/05/2009
Year Published: 2009
Resource Type: Article
Reporters Without Borders condemns the Iraqi governmentâ##s continuing legal offensive against independent news media, which for the first time is also targeting Internet media.
Abstract: Reporters Without Borders condemns the Iraqi governmentâ##s continuing legal offensive against independent news media, which for the first time is also targeting Internet media. As a result of a lawsuit brought by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a Baghdad court ordered the Iraqi news website Kitabat to pay 1 billion dinars (630,000 euros) in damages on 18 May.
Although based in Germany, Kitabat uses reports provided by many correspondents inside Iraq and the ruling threatens its ability to co...
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