Reporters detained by Iraqi police
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NAJAF, Iraq -- Iraqi police, some with their faces covered by ski masks, fired several shots as they stormed a hotel packed with journalists yesterday, rounding them up at gunpoint and forcing them onto flatbed trucks bound for the local police station, where they were detained for an hour.
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Two French journalists have been taken hostage in Iraq by Islamic militants demanding the rescission of a ban on the Islamic headscarf in French schools, the Arabic satellite news channel Al-Jazeera reported.
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Four Iraqi military officers are being held over the kidnapping this week of an Iranian diplomat in Baghdad, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari said on Wednesday.
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An Italian woman journalist is seized from a Baghdad street by a group of armed men, Iraqi police say.
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Media groups expressed concern Thursday at the detention of an Afghan journalist with no explanation, days after a government magazine editor was arrested on unspecified charges.
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A woman journalist working for French newspaper Liberation and her Iraqi interpreter have been missing in Iraq since early on Wednesday, the daily and the French Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
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Police in Moscow have detained two Chechen men on suspicion of involvement in the killing of American journalist Paul Klebnikov in the Russian capital, the city police chief said Tuesday.
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The reporters had been held by a group calling itself the Islamic Army of Iraq, which has killed hostages in the past.
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A woman journalist working for French  newspaper Liberation and her Iraqi interpreter have been  missing in Iraq since early on Wednesday, the daily and the  French Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
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The U.S. military has been holding an   Iraqi photographer working for The Associated Press since   April, and the agency asked on Sunday that he either be charged   or released.
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German police on Friday arrested three Iraqis suspected of plotting to assassinate visiting Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi. The three men were detained after police stormed
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Gunmen kidnapped an Italian journalist  in Baghdad Friday, the latest in a series of brazen abductions  but the first since Iraq's election.
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The detentions were the latest in a string of arrests and official harassment of journalists, writers and scholars.
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The Associated Press says one of its own has been detained for five months by the U.S. military without a hearing or charges being filed. The Iraqi AP photographer -- one of the 14,000 suspects in limbo in U.S. military prisons -- is part of a team that won a Pulitzer last year for breaking news photos.
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An Iraqi rebel group has seized four  Iraqi policemen in Najaf and threatened to kill them unless  police agree to stop hunting insurgents and pressuring rebel  cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, Al Jazeera television said Friday.
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British police held doctors from Iraq and Jordan on Monday among seven suspects detained after failed car bomb attacks in central London and in Glasgow.
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The release of two French journalists  held in Iraq since August was delayed Friday when a group of  Iraqis transporting them was bombarded by U.S. forces, an aide  to a French MP aiming to help free them said.