Following the adjournment Maliki lawsuit against the news media .. alliance warns of mounting threat to freedom of expression

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Twilight News / reformers across the alliance, consisting of several media and human rights organizations and activists civilian defenders of the right to freedom of expression and protection of journalists, on Wednesday, expressed concern over the escalation of lawsuits and the continuing threats to their freedom of expression.

He stressed the alliance said in a statement delivered by jurist Mohammed Salami during a press conference held at the headquarters of the Tower of Babel Foundation for the development of the media center of the capital Baghdad, said "the escalation of the threat campaign and lawsuits against journalists constitute a violation of the right to freedom, he arrived to open a case of Vice President Nuri al-Maliki against the journalist and writer Ali Hussein, in an article which he addressed the treatment and diagnosis of general topics, without prejudice to a particular individual. "

"The recording media people and activists affirm the right of citizens to express their views are generally in public affairs and all the political and economic events Awalajtmaih, this constitutionally guaranteed right."

He continued salami, "can not be considered the rule of democracy in the country are present, in the presence of stone on what you say the fourth power, and we believe that the complaint in this way is the intimidation of the press and a threat to freedom of expression and the return to the use of the same methods used by the previous political systems, for their silence his opponents."

He continued, saying, "We coalition of reformers and we stand our solidarity with the journalist Ali Hussein and Prime term institution for Culture, Media Fakhri Karim, and affirm our rejection of all forms of repression, which has become exercised by the authorities over the press and the word free."

He called the alliance the Iraqi judiciary to "respond as such lawsuits have become duplicated by the authorities and politicians in recent times, to keep the spirit of the Constitution and guaranteed civil liberties for all."

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