Iraqi regulator wants to suspend Reuters over coronavirus reporting

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Iraqi authorities to rescind their decision to suspend the Reuters news agency’s licence to operate in Iraq for three months because of an article suggesting that the government was vastly understating the number of confirmed Covid-19 cases. The decision was announced by the Communications and Media Commission (CMC) on its Facebook page just hours after Reuters

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