{"id":6280,"date":"2022-08-29T16:21:18","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T13:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pfaa-iq.com\/?p=6280"},"modified":"2022-08-30T16:22:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T13:22:46","slug":"aljazeera-and-alrashid-among-detained-press-cadres-in-iz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pfaa-iq.com\/?p=6280","title":{"rendered":"AlJazeera and AlRashid Among Detained Press Cadres in IZ"},"content":{"rendered":"

29\/8\/2022<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Security forces near the Green Zone launched a brutal attack on press crews as they covered protests at the government palace building on Monday afternoon<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Security forces have<\/span><\/span> arrested Al-Jazeera and Al-Rasheed channels<\/span><\/span>\u2019 cadres<\/span><\/span>, and beat<\/span><\/span>en<\/span><\/span> and insulted the staff of Al-Fallujah and Al-Arabiya Al-<\/span><\/span>Hadath<\/span><\/span>, whi<\/span><\/span>ch necessitated the transfer <\/span><\/span>of Al-Fallujah <\/span><\/span>cameraman <\/span><\/span>to the hospital<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Walid<\/span><\/span> Ibrahim, director of Al Jazeera’s office <\/span><\/span>told<\/span><\/span> the Press Freedom <\/span><\/span>Advocacy Association <\/span><\/span>in <\/span><\/span>Iraq that<\/span><\/span> their correspondent <\/span><\/span>Samer<\/span><\/span> Youssef and <\/span><\/span>cameraman<\/span><\/span> Mohammed <\/span><\/span>Mulla<\/span><\/span> were arrested inside the government palace by a security force to prevent them from filming, and released <\/span><\/span>released<\/span><\/span> them after <\/span><\/span>more than an hour <\/span><\/span>of <\/span><\/span>detention<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

On the other hand, the director of Al-Rasheed TV <\/span><\/span>,<\/span><\/span>“Ali <\/span><\/span>Baban<\/span><\/span>“, reported <\/span><\/span>to the association <\/span><\/span>the arrest of the channel’s staff by security elements, namely the reporter “Ammar <\/span><\/span>Ghassan<\/span><\/span>” and the <\/span><\/span>cameraman<\/span><\/span> “Mohammed Al-<\/span><\/span>Shammari<\/span><\/span>“, indicating that they were released, after being severely beaten, and confiscating the channel’s equipment<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The association also learned from colleagues in the “Fallujah”<\/span><\/span>channel<\/span><\/span>,<\/span><\/span> that the<\/span><\/span>ir<\/span><\/span> cameraman “<\/span><\/span>Saif<\/span><\/span> Ali” was severely beaten with a <\/span><\/span>club<\/span><\/span> and batons by security forces near the Green Zone while covering the protests, re<\/span><\/span>sulting in injuring his leg<\/span><\/span>, after which he was taken to the hospital for treatment. The colleagues explained that other security elements assaulted the correspondent of the same channel, “Hassan Mohamed <\/span><\/span>Amori<\/span><\/span>” and confiscated his equi<\/span><\/span>pment to prevent him from <\/span><\/span>cover<\/span><\/span>erage<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

A colleague at Al-Arabiya Al-<\/span><\/span>Hadath<\/span><\/span> TV also reported that their staff were beaten while covering the escalating events today inside the Green Zone by the security of the region, while refusing to name the journalists who were attacked<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

UTV staff had been assaulted by a security officer near the government palace during <\/span><\/span>his<\/span><\/span> live broadcast, but had re-filmed after being protected by protesters<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

While <\/span><\/span>the <\/span><\/span>Press Freedom<\/span><\/span> Advocacy Association<\/span><\/span> in Iraq expresses its deep concern about the brutal attacks on press crews today by the security forces, it considers this a violation of the freedom of journalistic and media work in the country, which is constitutionally guaranteed, and a clear government insistence on disrupting the work of the press and the media during the outbreak of crises<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The association <\/span><\/span>holds<\/span><\/span> the commander-in-chief of the armed forces<\/span><\/span> the <\/span><\/span>responsibility for the arrests and beatings of colleagues <\/span><\/span>; He,<\/span><\/span> who earlier pledged to protect journalists, <\/span><\/span>allowed<\/span><\/span> the security forces acting under his command <\/span><\/span>to<\/span><\/span>assault <\/span><\/span>press cadres, and <\/span><\/span>prevent <\/span><\/span>them from performing their duties<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The association also calls on the security services to stop <\/span><\/span>attacking and arresting<\/span><\/span> journalists<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The association stresses that the mission of the security forces is to provide protection to all protesters and journalists <\/span><\/span>alike<\/span><\/span>, and <\/span><\/span>not <\/span><\/span>to violate the principles of the constitution that guarantees the freedom of journalistic work in all its forms<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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29\/8\/2022 Security forces near the Green Zone launched a brutal attack on press crews as they covered protests at the government palace building on Monday afternoon. Security forces have arrested Al-Jazeera and Al-Rasheed channels\u2019 cadres, and beaten and insulted the staff of Al-Fallujah and Al-Arabiya Al-Hadath, which necessitated the transfer of Al-Fallujah cameraman to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1314,"featured_media":6271,"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-6280","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\/7EB39343-CC23-4001-B551-5F62E6DA218F.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pfaa-iq.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6280","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=6280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pfaa-iq.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6281,"href":"https:\/\/pfaa-iq.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6280\/revisions\/6281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pfaa-iq.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pfaa-iq.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pfaa-iq.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pfaa-iq.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}