An Iraqi journalist chants slogans during a journalists protest at Mutanabi Street in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Aug. 14, 2009. Dozens of Iraqi journalists have taken to the streets in Iraq's capital to protest what they say is political pressure to silence reporting critical of the government. The cartoon on the right depicting a person threatening a journalist not to speak about the bank robbery and reads, " if you are going to talk about the robbery, I will burn you." and The banner on the left in Arabic reads, " You have killed Atwar Bahjat, an Iraqi journalist killed by insurgents in 2005 in Samara, then you cannot kill the freedom of media."
Associated Press / Daylife
Date Posted:
24 August 2009
Last Modified:
24 August 2009
