A media watchdog group is urging President Barack Obama to end the U.S. military's practice of detaining journalists without charges and has asked for a full investigation into killings of journalists by U.S. military forces.
Officials with the Committee to Protect Journalists said Tuesday that the detention of journalists without trial by U.S. authorities in such countries as Iraq has emboldened other countries to do the same.
Paul Steiger, the group's board chairman, said he sent a letter to Obama's transition team last month. He noted in it that 14 journalists have been held without due process for long periods in Iraq and Afghanistan and at the U.S. prison center in Guantanamo.
He also said 16 journalists have been killed by U.S. fire in Iraq since 2003.
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