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09/08/2011 17:34
Baghdad, August 9 / August (Rn) - criticized the Journalistic Freedoms Observatory in Iraq on Tuesday, the law of the rights of Iraqi journalists and said that he serves the government and the lack of transparency and the right of access to information, calling at the same time, President Jalal Talabani not to ratify it. This position comes hours after the approval of the Iraqi parliament to the law of the rights of journalists, who postponed a vote more than once and made amendments to the draft, after being widely criticized by those working in the media field in Iraq. The vice president of the Observatory Hadi Jallo Mari told the Kurdish news agency (Rn) We would like to be "a law to promote transparency in Iraq and the right of access to information and not to pass laws calculated for the power," adding, "We aspire to the law in line with our desire." He said, "This law, which passed does not represent the spirit of the Iraqi press because the press does not operate according to laws," noting that "there are no objections to certain articles of the law." stressed Mari saying that "the law protects the Iraqi government and officials and does not protect the press, and we reject this law." and called on President Jalal Talabani to the non-ratification of the law and overturned upon arrival to the Presidency of the Republic. and classified Iraq that it is the most dangerous areas in the practice of journalism in the world after the registration of deaths of about 360 journalists in the country since 2003, according to numbers of civilian organizations. and this fact led many to claim the enactment of a law guaranteeing the rights of journalists, but journalists' union, and directed the finger more than once to your political obstacle standing in front of the law was passed, said she feared to secure protection for journalists when their work in exposing corruption and other files. of weighing-Shammari, the Open: Abdullah Sabri
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