{"id":4429,"date":"2020-08-16T14:20:38","date_gmt":"2020-08-16T11:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pfaa-iq.com\/?p=4429"},"modified":"2020-08-30T14:22:31","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T11:22:31","slug":"alhurra-attacked-in-basra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pfaa-iq.com\/?p=4429","title":{"rendered":"Alhurra attacked in Basra"},"content":{"rendered":"

16\/8\/2020<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Riot police severely beat a reporter and cameraman <\/span><\/span>of<\/span><\/span> al-<\/span><\/span>Hurra<\/span><\/span> T<\/span><\/span>V<\/span><\/span> in<\/span><\/span> Basra while covering the demonstration, which <\/span><\/span>erupted<\/span><\/span> Sunday evening.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The channel’s\u00a0<\/span><\/span>correspondent <\/span><\/span>Najah<\/span><\/span> al-<\/span><\/span>Abedi<\/span><\/span> said <\/span><\/span>on<\/span><\/span> a telephone conversation with Press Freedom<\/span><\/span>Advocacy Association<\/span><\/span> in Iraq that she was with fellow <\/span><\/span>cameraman<\/span><\/span> Mohammed al-<\/span><\/span>Hilali<\/span><\/span> in<\/span><\/span> a<\/span><\/span> press coverage of the protests in the <\/span><\/span>Manawi<\/span><\/span> Pasha area of central Basra, and was prevented by riot police from covering, <\/span><\/span>and that they were <\/span><\/span>severely<\/span><\/span> beaten<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Al-<\/span><\/span>Abedi<\/span><\/span> said members of the security force had seized their cameras and equipment.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The city of Basra witnessed widespread protests near the residence of governor <\/span><\/span>Assaad<\/span><\/span> al-<\/span><\/span>Aidani<\/span><\/span>, demanding the <\/span><\/span>exposure<\/span><\/span> of the killers of activist <\/span><\/span>Tahsin<\/span><\/span> Osama, who was assassinated on Friday.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Association which condemns the attack on fellow journalists, <\/span><\/span>considers the incident<\/span><\/span> a clear violation of the freedom of journalistic and media work guaranteed by <\/span><\/span>the Iraqi constitution<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Association calls on the Prime Minister, as commander-in-chief of the armed forces, and the Minister of Interior to intervene immediately to punish the elements who attacked<\/span><\/span> the<\/span><\/span> journalists, <\/span><\/span>and <\/span><\/span>to identify the officer who ordered the detention and prevention of <\/span><\/span>the<\/span><\/span> press <\/span><\/span>staff<\/span><\/span>, and to severely beat a reporter who was carrying out her professional duty.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The association holds the prime minister responsible for the continued violations against journalists in all parts of Iraq, without any deterrent or any <\/span><\/span>declared attitude<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This confirms the continuation of the approach taken by successive governments to restrict the freedom of journalistic work and violate the Constitution.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

16\/8\/2020 Riot police severely beat a reporter and cameraman of al-Hurra TV in Basra while covering the demonstration, which erupted Sunday evening. The channel’s\u00a0correspondent Najah al-Abedi said on a telephone conversation with Press FreedomAdvocacy Association in Iraq that she was with fellow cameraman Mohammed al-Hilali in a press coverage of the protests in the Manawi […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1314,"featured_media":4383,"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-4429","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\/209a006ddabeb157a20c35f61591e042.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pfaa-iq.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4429","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\/1314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pfaa-iq.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pfaa-iq.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4430,"href":"https:\/\/pfaa-iq.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4429\/revisions\/4430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pfaa-iq.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pfaa-iq.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pfaa-iq.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pfaa-iq.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}