BAGHDAD, 29 May 2005 (IRIN) - Iraqi journalists say they are being censored by the US-led Coalition forces and the Iraqi government because of the topics covered by them in newspapers and on television.
The Iraqi Association of Journalists (IAJ) said they have been accused of collaborating with insurgents after trying to report on both sides of the ongoing conflict.
Based on the IAJ information, eight journalists have been detained since March 2005 by US forces, accused of being a security risk to the Iraqi people and the military.
"Journalists are not just being targeted verbally or politically, they are also being targeted for real in Iraq. The ignorance and immaturity of the US military which does not make differences [differentiate] between the insurgents and the press has been adopted brutally against the media in our country," Ahmed Abdul-Satar, an Iraqi journalist working for a French media organisation, told IRIN.
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