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| Iraq's anti-corruption journalist attacked |
| 2009-10-19 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] An Iraqi journalist called for protection after being "brutally" attacked for her efforts in fighting corruption while refusing to confirm rumors about the culprits and ruling out the possibility of leaving the country. Zahraa al-Moussawi published several online articles about corruption in the Iraqi government and received many threats before she was beaten up in a Baghdad street, she said in an interview with Al Arabiya TV. "I was attacked in the Arasat district in the center of Iraq," she said. "A group of armed men got off a four-wheel drive and started beating me up brutally." None of the assailants talked to her, but she knew they were Iraqis when one of them asked the others to go back to the car quickly, Moussawi said, adding that allegations she was stripped of her clothes in the street were false. As Moussawi was attacked in the street, no passer-by had stepped forward to help her, she said, but added she did not blame anyone for not helping. "They probably thought these were the security forces arresting a terrorist or something of that sort. It was also dangerous to interfere since the assailants were armed. Iraqis live in fear all the time and I can't blame them." |
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