Attacks on both local and international journalists across Iraq have not stopped to this day, finds Al Jazeera.

Obama had high praise for the state of press freedom in Iraq, at a press conference in 2011 (Gallo / Getty)
While scores of newspapers and media outlets blossomed across Baghdad following the removal of Saddam Hussein’s regime in the spring of 2003, the media renaissance was also met with attacks on both local and international journalists across the country – that have not stopped to this day.
Iraq was the deadliest country in the world for journalists every year from 2003 to 2008, the third deadliest in 2009, and the second deadliest in 2010 and 2011, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).





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