Journalist released 20 days after he was detained

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: The al-Rasafa prosecution on Sunday released journalist Riad Qassem after more than 20 days of detention for lack of insufficient evidence to implicate him, according to the official spokesman for Iraq’s higher judicial council. “Qassem was released for lack of insufficient evidence,” Abdulsattar al-Bayraqdar told IraqiNews.com news agency. Press sources had said that a force from the terrorism & organized crime combating department in al-Aadhamiya, northern Baghdad, arrested 70-year-old journalist Qassem in accordance with Article 4 of the law on terrorism on charges of murder. Qassem, who suffers from diabetes, has worked as a journalist for several local and Arab mass media organizations throughout a career that extended for four decades. AmR (P) 2