July 23, 2003	Wednesday	Jumadi-ul-Awwal 22, 1424

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PARIS, July 22: In a report published on Tuesday, and based on a fact-finding mission it just sent to Iraq, international journalists’ rights organisation Reporters sans frontieres (RSF) says that it is calling for “speedy action” for “restrictive media regulations imposed by the US and British occupation forces” to be replaced with “clear and coherent laws.”

The report otherwise says that the situation of the Iraqi media today, three months after the war, is one of a “new but fragile freedom.” In the report, Reporters sans frontieres “welcomes the vigorous revival of the media after three decades

of grim repression under President Saddam’s regime, but expresses fear that the new freedoms could be eroded if resistance grew to the occupying forces.”