SFGate: US accused of hypocrisy over imprisonment of Reuters cameraman
While the US is calling for the release of its journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling, Ibrahim Jassam, a Reuters cameraman, is still being held in US custody in Iraq, reports SFGate.
“[W]e are subject to the taint of hypocrisy if we detain journalists and then criticize other countries for doing the same thing,” Allen Weiner, co-director of the Stanford international law program and a former State Department legal adviser, says in this report, which also raises questions about the lack of special protections for journalists under international law.
Tags: Allen Weiner, cameraman, co-director, co-director of international law program, Department of State, Euna Lee, Ibrahim Jassam, Iraq, Laura Ling, law program, legal adviser, reuters, Stanford, United States, us
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