Tolerance.ca
Director / Editor: Victor Teboul, Ph.D.
Looking inside ourselves and out at the world
Independent and neutral with regard to all political and religious orientations, Tolerance.ca® aims to promote awareness of the major democratic principles on which tolerance is based.

Iraq - Star journalist sued by head of electoral commission

Reporters without borders
Reporters Without Borders condemns the libel suit that Faraj Haidari, the president of Iraq's electoral commission, has brought against Hashem Hassan, a journalist who once had a very high profile and who was jailed under Saddam Hussein. He now heads the University of Baghdad's media department. Haidari is demanding 2 billion dinars (1.2 million euros) in damages for one of the articles Hassan wrote for the 4 May issue of the newspaper Al-Mashreq. It questioned the commission's legitimacy and (...)


Read complete article

© Reporters without borders -
Subscribe to Tolerance.ca


Follow us on ...
Facebook Twitter