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ジャーナリスト保護委員会（ＣＰＪ、本部・ニューヨーク）が今回のフリーランスのジャーナリストも含む日本人誘拐事件に懸念を表明した。
JOURNALIST AMONG KIDNAPPED FOREIGNERS IN IRAQ
http://www.cpj.org/news/2004/Iraq08apr04na.html#more
朝日新聞はイラクにおけるジャーナリスト死亡増加について報じたが、その記事では今年１月のＣＰＪレポートは引用しながらも、最近起きたアメリカのパレスチナ・ジャーナリスト殺害正当化や、それに先立ってＣＰＪがラムズフェルドに出している書簡のことについては奇妙なことに触れていない。
CPJ SENDS LETTER TO RUMSFELD
ABOUT THE DEATHS OF TWO JOURNALISTS IN IRAQ
http://www.cpj.org/protests/04ltrs/Iraq-USA25mar04pl.html
Dear Secretary Rumsfeld:
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is alarmed by the deaths of two journalists working for the United Arab Emirates based news channel Al-Arabiyya in Baghdad last week. These deaths are especially troubling because they occurred just days before the military presented a detailed report on the August death of Reuters cameraman Mazen Dana that contained recommendations for creating safer conditions for journalists working in Iraq.・・・
イラクの誘拐事件でアメリカから情報提供協力を受けていることなどから管制でも敷かれてでもいるのだろうか。それとも自主的なものだろうか。
ともあれ、ＣＰＪが最近のシーア派武装勢力によるＮＹＴを含むジャーナリスト拘束について記している記事を下に転載する。
シーア派武装勢力は拘束したジャーナリストのいずれもすぐに釈放している。ジャーナリストを殺害している危険な勢力はどこだろう。
IRAQ: CPJ CONCERNED ABOUT ABDUCTION OF JOURNALISTS
http://www.cpj.org/news/2004/Iraq07apr04na.html
New York, April 7, 2004 The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is deeply concerned about several recent incidents in which journalists have been briefly held by insurgents in Iraq.
These incidents come amid escalating clashes between Coalition forces and Iraqi insurgents.
According to The Associated Press (AP), one of its photographers and his driver were detained today in the southern city of Kut by militiamen loyal to radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. The gunmen accused the two men of being \"traitors\" and bound and blindfolded them, the AP reported. They were later released after another Shiite cleric vouched for the two men. The AP also reported that its stringer in Karbala, also in southern Iraq, was told yesterday by al-Sadr supporters in the city to leave and has not been allowed to return.
Meanwhile, a New York Times spokeswoman, Catherine Mathis said that a reporter, photographer, driver, and translator all working for the Times were abducted at gunpoint today outside of Baghdad. They were held for several hours and released unharmed. CPJ is seeking further details.
In today\'s edition of The New York Times, Times correspondent John Burns reported on an April 6 incident in which he and several Times employees from the paper\'s Baghdad bureau were detained in Kufa, 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of the capital, by al-Sadr\'s forces. Burns wrote that the staff was suspected \"of being Special Forces operatives or intelligence agents for the United States, Spain or Israel.\" He said the group was held for eight hours and then released.
According to CPJ research, Iraq is currently the most dangerous place in the world to work as a journalist. Reporters face daily security risks, including shootings and bombings from insurgents, carjackings and holdups by criminals, and gunfire from coalition troops.
While journalists are generally not being targeted because of their journalism, Westerners-among them members of the press-remain under threat of attack. Iraqi nationals who work for foreign organizations, including the media, have also been threatened and in some instances killed in apparent reprisal for their associations with these organizations.
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