"Rights" calls to protect Samarra’s journalists from killing and refuses to prosecute another journalist in Karbala
03/06/2019 04:03
Statement
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The Rights Center for Freedom of Expression Support calls on Samarra Operations Command to provide the necessary protection for journalists who work in the judiciary, because they are being arrested and threats of physical liquidation by unknown persons on charges of incitement to sectarianism, while refusing to drag journalist Haidar Hadi, from Karbala, to the judiciary by a member of the provincial council, Nasser al-Khazali, with the aim of exhausting financially and restricting his work in the province.
While the Rights Center deplores the threats to the journalists of Samarra because of television reports demanding the deportation of buffalo’s raiser from north of Samarra, so it calls on threatened journalists to file a lawsuit against the telephone numbers from which they are calling, while pledging to provide a team of lawyers for those cases.
The Rights Center asks the President of the Supreme Judicial Council and the Ministry of the Interior, also calls on the courts and police stations not to detain journalists in the investigative procedures for press work.
The correspondent of Al- Tagheer satellite channel Mohammad Qader Samarrai, told Rights Center that "the journalists of Samarra have been threatened with liquidation or arrest after being accused by unknown individuals inciting sectarianism, against the background of the preparation of press reports about the presence of buffalo’s raiser from north of Samarra.
The correspondent of the INEWS satellite station in Karbala, Haider Hadi, the center, says, that "a member of the provincial council Nasser al-Khazali recorded a lawsuit against him after the preparation of television reports reveal the failure and accusations of corruption of the Economic Committee in the provincial council headed by Khazali," noting that" was suspended during the official working hours and then released on bail of 5 million Iraqi dinars. "