IJRDA demands release of photojournalist detained in Mosul

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: The Iraqi Journalists Rights Defense Association (IJRDA) demanded Saturday to release a Reuters news agency photojournalist who has been detained by the Iraqi army in Mosul city for more than two months. “A force from the Iraqi army arrested Jassim Mohammed Ali while he was shooting a blast location in Mosul city (405 km north of Baghdad) on June 10, 2009,” the IJRDA said in a release received by Iraqi News. “We demand to release Ali,” it said. Jassim Mohammed Ali was born in 1974. He is married and has three kids. Before working for Reuters, he had worked for different news outlets, including the Associated Press (AP). The IJRDA considered random arrests of journalists as “part of a campaign that started last month to confiscate freedom of expression and of the press, and to curb the process of informing the public.” MH (P) / SS 1