Authorities close RT bureau in Baghdad, new TV station in Sulaymaniyah

By alexandraek

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the unjustified closures of two TV stations in raids in Iraq in the past two days – one in the capital and the other in the autonomous Kurdish region in the north of the country – and calls for both to be allowed to resume operating in order to reverse these latest setbacks to press freedom in Iraq.Yesterday’s raid in the Kurdish city of Sulaymaniyah was carried out by security forces affiliated to the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), which shares control of the Kurdistan

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