Diyar Abbas Ahmed, a reporter with private news agency Ain, was shot by unidentified gunmen in the northern city of Kirkuk on Friday.
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Four employees of privately-owned TV station Al Sharqiya were murdered on 13 September in the northern city of Mosul.
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The Crown Prosecution Service stated there is ‘insufficient evidence’ to prosecute any US soldier over the death of ITN journalist Terry Lloyd in Iraq. On 22 March 2003 Terry Lloyd was injured in crossfire between Iraqi troops and American tanks outside Basra. A civilian minibus taking the wounded reporter to hospital was fired upon by US forces, killing Lloyd and his translator Hussein Osman.
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A US military board last week ordered that Ahmed Raziak, a 38-year-old cameraman, be held for at least six more months for ‘imperative reasons of security’, but declined to disclose any specific allegations against him or provide any evidence as to why he is considered a security risk. Raziak is being held without charge at Camp Cropper near Baghdad airport, after being seized by US and Iraqi forces last month in Tikrit.
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