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Abu Nawas Street, depends on the orders, "the commander of necessity"
On: Sat 21/01/2012 10:16
Baghdad / Wael grace
was a curfew in the street of Abu Nawas and sit in the gardens elusive at the time of Saddam, the region bordering the Palace of the commander of necessity and lack of men is taboo.
After 2003, breathing people sigh of relief Here is the street the air up to them and return with memories of the Lamas beautiful However, the Americans stole the joy of people Vsaaroa in the footsteps of Saddam and prevented people from approaching the shores of the river for some it is overlooking the Green Zone, and to make matters worse
It also says Abu Mohammed seller of cigarettes, traveling in a park while the mortar "imagined" Down with the "father Nawas" instead of the Green Zone, which has always been bombed, and suffered Passers by in the street controls, security and the list of contraband that begins by asking why the stand does not end Prevention of photography. Maj. Gen. Adel Daham, spokesman for the Interior Ministry and police chief of Baghdad, said in connection with the "long" that the interior does not prevent one of the photography. The spokesman stressed that the shooting of government institutions requires the approval of the interior. He said that some places in Abu Nawas Street, overlooking the important government institutions, as mentioned a number of photographers that they are always subjected to harassment when they filmed the streets and public squares in the capital. The Journalistic Freedoms Observatory issued a statement two days ago, condemning the assault troops of the Iraqi army on the influential group of journalists a few days ago, called the Observatory and the defense and interior ministries to reduce behaviors authoritarianism practiced by every now and then the other elements in the army or police force who lack the element of discipline, and the culture of dealing civilized with journalists, both when working in the media coverage or when exercising their normal lives.
colleague Fadel Nashmi prepared programs in the channel free one of those who had been subjected to this harassment he and his colleagues in the channel Arif Saadi presenter, and colleague Qais Hassan, head of programs which, in addition to Colleague Qassim Mohammed Jabbar, Director of Media at the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research were heading after the completion of their work to the street of Abu Nawas downtown and adjacent to the station at half past three in the afternoon of Wednesday, and they have took pictures of a memorial, while the dismount soldiers were riding in the wheel Hummer belonging to the Iraqi army, and asked them to highlight their identities, and scan images all for reasons of security and the other directed his weapon our part, Mtahedda, while the other Ptvicna, and take over our mobile phones, and our identities and provocative way that grim, other than a handicap for more than half an hour indulging in abuse , note that there is no indication to prevent photography in the park known to the public and private people. Street, Abu Nawas, who promised us a government that they phase into one of the most beautiful streets of the cities in the Middle East is still to this day a prisoner of the laws of Saddam Hussein, which tells you that photography is prohibited for security reasons.
For its part, issued a coordinating committee of the National Union of Journalists and media professionals of Iraqi statement saying: that dealing with this way with any citizen is a wake-up call to the concerned officials and a clear signal that public freedoms violated under the pretext of security that is subject to the definitions of secret undeclared held by the patrolling security forces, nor citizen knows when can immobilize or what is the act violates the law.
and called the union entities responsible to issue guidance to the security forces in all its different observance of civil liberties and basic rights first before you apply the laws and security instructions written with invisible ink that can not see the one - assuming its existence - and invites journalists and media professionals to report on abuses that may be exposed to public and private freedoms in order to contribute in preventing the persistence of some elements of the security agencies to clamp down on freedoms of citizens.
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