25\/10\/2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Riot police attacked\nand beaten Altaghyircorrespondent Mohammed Qadirduring\nhis covering the Demonstrations in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201dWhile covering the demonstrations in Tahrir Square and\nafter we were allowed to cross Aljumhuriya Bridge by security forces, we were\nsurprised by our obstruction by the riot police who attackedus,” he said.\nI was severely beaten\u201d”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI was then\nhit by tear gas, fainted, and then taken to hospital,” he said<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Press Freedom\nAdvocacy Association in Iraq condemns the continuing violations of the Iraqi\nconstitution affecting journalists despite government promises to protect\njournalists, media personnel and public freedoms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The association\nsaid the Iraqi government has been violating the Iraqi constitution and all\ninternational laws and conventions that have been sponsoring freedom of opinion\nand expression since the start of the first of October demonstrations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
25\/10\/2019 Riot police attacked and beaten Altaghyircorrespondent Mohammed Qadirduring his covering the Demonstrations in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square. \u201dWhile covering the demonstrations in Tahrir Square and after we were allowed to cross Aljumhuriya Bridge by security forces, we were surprised by our obstruction by the riot police who attackedus,” he said. I was severely beaten\u201d” \u201cI […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1315,"featured_media":3401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-opinion-articles"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/pfaa-iq.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot_2019-10-25-13-40-41-892.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pfaa-iq.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pfaa-iq.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pfaa-iq.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pfaa-iq.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pfaa-iq.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pfaa-iq.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3441,"href":"https:\/\/pfaa-iq.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440\/revisions\/3441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pfaa-iq.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pfaa-iq.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pfaa-iq.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pfaa-iq.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}