Iraq - One journalist killed in Baghdad, another badly wounded in Babil province

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is dismayed to learn that Mohamed Baidawi, Radio Free Iraq's Baghdad bureau chief, was shot dead in Baghdad on 22 March, while Radio Babel journalist Raji Hamadallah was badly injured in a shooting attack yesterday in Babil province. Baidawi was trying to enter the high security “Green Zone” where the Radio Free Iraq's office is located when he got into an argument at a checkpoint with a member of the presidential guard, who hit him several times and finally shot him (...)

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