Iraqi Journalist Jailed Over Homosexuality Story

[mitchtv]

CommentsSULAIMANIYAH, Iraq — International media watchdog groups called Wednesday for the release of a freelance journalist jailed in northern Iraq for violating a public decency law by writing a story about homosexuality.

Adel Hussein was sentenced Nov. 24 to six months in jail by a court in Irbil, capital of the Kurdish-ruled region of northern Iraq, according to the Committee To Protect Journalists and Reporters Without Borders.

Hussein also was ordered to pay a fine of about $106, the organizations said. He is being held at Mahata prison in Irbil, about 220 miles north of Baghdad.

"We are astonished to learn that a press case has been tried under the criminal code. What was the point of adopting _ and then liberalizing _ a press code in the Kurdistan region if people who contribute to the news media are still be tried under more repressive laws," Reporters Without Borders said in a statement.>more

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/03/iraqi-journalist-jailed-o_n_148000.html

[David Zephyr]

1. K&R.

Thanks for posting this story here. K&R.

[mitchtv]

2. Let freedom reign

kinda like let freedom ring, I suppose