By Agence France Presse (AFP)
Friday, June 29, 2007
BAGHDAD: Four more Iraqi journalists have been killed in attacks across Iraq in the last three weeks, a media watchdog and police said Thursday. Louai Suleiman, a Christian working with a newspaper called Nineveh al-Hurra in the northern city of Mosul, and another man were found dead Wednesday, police said. They said the two men, who were also members of a local Christian cultural organization, were killed by gunmen in the city's Al-Zuhur neighborhood. As more and more media outlets relocate to neighboring countries and the Kurdish north, "their local correspondents are left without any protection and their killers continue to operate with impunity," the Paris-based media watchdog Reporters Without Borders said in a statement. One of the most recent victims was the journalist Rahim al-Maliki, a well-known poet who hosted cultural programs on the state-run Al-Iraqiyya television network before he was killed in a Baghdad hotel bombing Monday. Another veteran reporter, Hamid Abed Sarhan, 57, was ambushed and killed as he drove home Wednesday in the southern Baghdad district of Al-Saeediyya, the organization said, citing the Journalists Union. A third journalist, Aref Ali Falih, a correspondent for Aswat al-Iraq (Voices of Iraq) was killed in a June 11 car bomb in the town of Khalis, northeast of the capital. - AFP
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