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NEW YORK — The U.S. military is making a mockery of American democratic principles by bringing a criminal case against an Associated Press photographer in Iraq without disclosing the charges against him, AP president and CEO Tom Curley said Saturday.
“This is a poor example — and not the first of its kind — of the way our government honors the democratic principles and values it says it wants to share with the Iraqi people,” Curley wrote in an opinion piece in The Washington Post.
The U.S. military notified the AP last weekend that it intended to submit a written complaint against Bilal Hussein that would bring the case into the Iraqi justice system as early as Thursday. Officials have refused to disclose the content of the complaint.
