JFO Decries Warrants for Four Journalists (for criticizing Nassiriya police)

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Source: VOI

JFO Decries Warrants for Four Journalists
Editors Reportedly Under Fire for Criticizing Nassiriya Police Forces

Baghdad, Aug 3, (VOI)- The Journalistic Freedom Observatory (JFO) said on Friday that an Iraqi court in the southern city of Nassiriyah issued an arrest warrant against four local journalists, according to a lawsuit submitted by the al-Nassiriyah police department.

"The al-Nassiriyah court of appeal issued an arrest warrant against four journalists, working in Thi Qar province, according to a lawsuit submitted against them by the police department," the JFO said in a statement received by the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).

"The journalists are: Jawad Kadhem Ismail, Ibrahim Abdul Hassan, Adnan al-Fadhli and Latif Ghejeri and all of them are editors working for "summareon.net" website, specialized in the city's news," the statement added.

"The complaint against the journalists has the signature of the chief of the criminal investigation department in Thi Qar," it noted.

The statement said "the problem flared up as "summereon.net" published a complaint presented by a number of local residents of al-Bathaa district in northeastern Nassiriyah, in which they urged the Chief of police General Abdul Hussein al-Safi to be firm in dealing with security issues in the province, making some notes criticizing the police performance."

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