259 Al-Hayat Journalist Detained in Iraq

Easy to miss this amid the 60 new mutilated corpses in Baghdad and Saddam Hussein’s messy trial, but on Sept. 10, Iraqi security forces detained Khalshan al-Bayati, Al-Hayat‘s Iraq correspondent, from her house. Authorities also confiscated her car, which they said had been used in an insurgent attack.

RSF’s statement is here.
[tags]Iraq, Khalshan al-Bayati[/tags]

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