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Iraqi journalists Syndicate: 2012 gives rise to number of victims among journalists

Iraqi journalists Syndicate: 2012 gives rise to number of victims among journalists

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) A reported by the Iraqi Journalists Syndicate announced that 2012 witnessed the murder of five journalists in the violence operations, where the number of the victims of the journalists over the past nine years reached (373) murdered.

The report revealed that “2012 is just an extension to the past years which witnessed targeting journalists by killing, assaults, and prevention of practicing professions.”

“The ratification of the Journalists’ Rights law that was applied on 29th, August, 2011 was not pure coincidence but it is a result of great sacrifices and exceptional efforts exerted by the journalists category,” the statement concluded.

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