Committee to Protect Journalists: Iraqi Regulator Suspends Reuters' License for 3 Months Over COVID-19 Report
April 04, 2020
April 04, 2020
NEW YORK, April 4 -- The Committee to Protect Journalists issued the following news:
Iraqi authorities should immediately reinstate the license of the Reuters news agency, and allow all media outlets to cover the COVID-19 pandemic freely, the Committee to Protect Journalists said.
Yesterday, the Communications and Media Commission, Iraq's media regulator, suspended Reuters' license for three months and fined it 25 million Iraqi dinars ($21,000) for a news report publish . . .
Iraqi authorities should immediately reinstate the license of the Reuters news agency, and allow all media outlets to cover the COVID-19 pandemic freely, the Committee to Protect Journalists said.
Yesterday, the Communications and Media Commission, Iraq's media regulator, suspended Reuters' license for three months and fined it 25 million Iraqi dinars ($21,000) for a news report publish . . .