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Kurdistan journalists' syndicate rejects
media censorship
23.6.2008
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June
23, 2008
Erbil-Hewler, Kurdistan region "Iraq", — The
head of the Journalists' Syndicate in Iraq's
Kurdistan region expressed his categorical rejection
of all forms of press censorship in light of a
memorandum submitted by religious clerics to the
region's president in which they called to impose
censorship on the press to put an end to what they
described as attacks on religious symbols.
Rejecting all kinds of restrictions on public and
press freedoms,www.ekurd.net
the syndicate's
chairman, Farhad Awni, urged journalists in a
statement released by the syndicate and received by
VOI to respect religious symbols and accept views
that are different from theirs.
Earlier, several men of religion and public figures
presented a memorandum to the president of the
Kurdistan region, Massoud Barzani, in which they
demanded a halt to what they described as the
attacks on religious symbols and sanctuaries.
Assigned by the president to examine the memorandum,
the Ministry of Awqaf (Endowments) in Iraq's
Kurdistan region said that the memorandum lacked
proper wording, according to Mariwan Naqshabandi, a
ministerial spokesman.
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