{"id":14943,"date":"2020-04-10T11:20:18","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T07:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geworld.ge\/en\/?p=14943"},"modified":"2020-04-10T11:20:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T07:20:18","slug":"they-are-lying-in-english-iraq-expelled-reuters-from-its-information-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geworld.ge\/en\/they-are-lying-in-english-iraq-expelled-reuters-from-its-information-field\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;They are lying in English&#8221;: Iraq expelled Reuters from its information field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Iraqi Communications and Mass Media Commission said on April 3 that the British news agency Reuters had banned professional activities in the Iraqi Arab Republic for three months.<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The reason for this decision of the Iraqi news regulator was the information spread by Reuters a few days ago that thousands of people in Iraq are &#8220;actually&#8221; infected with a new type of coronavirus and the country&#8217;s government is hiding the true scale of the epidemic.<\/p>\n<p>The agency&#8217;s London office was fined $ 21,000 for spreading false information that threatened Iraq&#8217;s national security. The commission also demanded that Reuters apologize to Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters wrote in its scandalous material that it relied on information from 3 Iraqi doctors and anonymous sources from the Iraqi Ministry of Health.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Iraqi Ministry of Health, as of April 3, there were 772 confirmed cases of coronavirus infection in the country, with 54 deaths.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prepared by Nika Korinteli<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iraqi Communications and Mass Media Commission said on April 3 that the British news agency Reuters had banned professional activities in the Iraqi Arab Republic for three months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geworld.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geworld.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geworld.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geworld.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geworld.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geworld.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14945,"href":"https:\/\/geworld.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14943\/revisions\/14945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geworld.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geworld.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geworld.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geworld.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}