Iraqi Media Under Growing Siege
by Dahr Jamail
BAGHDAD - The U.S. administration continues to tout Iraq as a shining example of democracy in the Middle East, but press freedom in Iraq has plummeted since the beginning of the occupation.
Repression of free speech in Iraq was already extreme under the regime of Saddam Hussein.
The 2002 Press Freedom Index of the watchdog group Reporters Without Borders ranked Iraq a dismal 130th. The 2006 index pushes Iraq down to the 154th position out of a total of 168 listed countries, though still ahead of Pakistan, Nepal, Saudi Arabia, China and Iran. North Korea is at the bottom of the table. Continued
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BAGHDAD - The U.S. administration continues to tout Iraq as a shining example of democracy in the Middle East, but press freedom in Iraq has plummeted since the beginning of the occupation.
Repression of free speech in Iraq was already extreme under the regime of Saddam Hussein.
The 2002 Press Freedom Index of the watchdog group Reporters Without Borders ranked Iraq a dismal 130th. The 2006 index pushes Iraq down to the 154th position out of a total of 168 listed countries, though still ahead of Pakistan, Nepal, Saudi Arabia, China and Iran. North Korea is at the bottom of the table. Continued
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