Baghdad The Iraqi Observatory for Journalistic Freedoms of the Iraqi Journalists Syndicate condemned the humiliating, and degrading method used by the judicial police officers of the Maitham Al-Tammar Police Station in the city of Kufa with the leading journalist Kadhem Muslim Al-Amiri.

The Observatory said in a statement today that the leading journalist was taken to the police station in a way that is usually used with murderers and criminals, and not with a capable university professor and a veteran journalist, on a charge that turned out to be malicious. The Iraqi Observatory for Journalistic Freedoms calls on the Najaf police command to apologize and give consideration befitting the stature of al-Amiri, Najaf journalists and respected university professors.

Head of the branch of the Journalists Syndicate in Najaf, Iyad al-Jubouri, told the Iraqi Observatory for Journalistic Freedoms: We hold the Police Chief of Kufa and Maitham al-Tammar police station responsible for insulting and transgressing this great Najaf journalistic stature, and it is necessary to deal with humanity first, with respect and secondly for the elites of society, and they are all subject to the law equally without transgression on their scientific and social standing, and we are certain that the judges and the police chief do not accept this disgraceful behavior from the patrol members, as we demand the mayor of Kufa to dismiss the mayor of Kinda district, who contributed to the encroachment and debasement of the value and prestige of our colleague Al-Amiri.

Source: National Iraqi News Agency