U.S. and Iraqi forces have arrested two journalists in separate raids, IraqSlogger reports. They are the latest in a long string of reporters, cameramen, and photographers who have been detained in Iraq.
Ibrahim Jasim, an Iraqi cameraman working with the Reuters news agency, was taken from his home in Babil Province by a joint American-Iraqi unit, IraqSlogger says.
Ayman Jasim, the sister of Ibrahim, told the Journalistic Freedoms Observatory (JFO) that the joint force raided their home… after midnight Monday night… [She] added that an American officer who was leading the joint force asked her brother Ibrahim about his work, and when he learned that the Iraqi worked as a news cameraman for Reuters, “he immediately ordered that he be arrested and confiscated four of his cameras, smashed his personal computer, and confiscated his mobile phone.”
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