Iraqi reporter’s home searched after he exposes corruption

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) is appalled to learn that a judge in Basra, in southern Iraq, ordered I News investigative reporter Hassan Sabah’s arrest this week on spurious grounds after he exposed a case of alleged corruption involving another Basra judge.Police swooped on Sabah’s home on the evening of 23 July with the aim of arresting him and taking him to a police station.

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