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"I was doing interviews with people preparing for an upcoming religious holiday at an old marketplace in the central of the city when gunmen shot dead my colleagues Mohammed Ghanim and Mohammed Karim who work with me in al-Sharqiyah satellite channel," Ahmad al-Haiyali, who works now with Radio Sawa, told Xinhua.
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"About a month later we had another journalist killed, as well as female presenter Nawras al-Nuaimi," he said.
Most of journalists in Mosul have left the city to other provinces or even to the neighboring countries. Those who remain in the city have to take their own precautions.
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Not only the gunmen threat the journalists in Iraq, but also security forces who sometimes do not allow journalists to cover politically sensitive topics.
"I can't forget what happened to me two years ago when I was covering anti-government demonstrations in Mosul. About nine troops beat me hard and dragged me inside a government building just because I was shooting them beating protesters," he said. "I yelled that I am a journalist but in vain."
Ibrahim al-Sarraji, head of Iraqi association to defend journalists' rights, told Xinhua that gunmen attacks against journalists have relation with the deteriorated security situation in Mosul.
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Sarraji's watchdog also registered that all the attacks against the journalists in Iraq went in apparent impunity, in a similar way to that crimes that occurred against the journalists since 2003.
"Such crimes with impunity deepen the concerns of the association from the reckless and incompetent investigation by the security forces in which always the culprits remain unknown," he said.
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The city has one of the most traditional New Year parties in the world. Every year, millions of people gather in Rio's beaches, most of them in the world-renowned Copacabana Beach, to celebrate the arrival of the new year. Free music concerts are usually held at the main beaches.
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