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Disturbing statement

Alarming statement and constant harassment offer no respite for journalists

Published on 4 August 2011Read

Three years later

Tribute to young journalist gunned down in Kirkuk three years ago today

Published on 21 July 2011Read

Resumption of physical attacks on reporters

Many journalists have been the target of deliberate physical attacks in the past week as police officers and members of the security forces of (...)

Published on 18 July 2011 Read

Lawsuits and violence by security forces become daily events for Iraqi journalists

Iraqi journalists are now often sued by politicians and public figures and, at the same time, are often the targets of physical attacks which, in (...)

Published on 13 July 2011 Read

Cameraman killed by car bomb in southern city

Reporters Without Borders offers its condolences to the family of Afaq TV cameraman Salem Alwan Al-Gharabi, who was killed in a double suicide (...)

Published on 22 June 2011 Read

Government urged to ensure journalists are free to cover Friday’s demonstrations

Reporters Without Borders wrote to the Iraqi authorities yesterday urging them to ensure respect for the rights of journalists, including their (...)

Published on 7 June 2011 Read

Concerns about a bill for the creation of a High Council for Information in Iraqi Kurdistan

Reporters Without Borders wrote on 26 May to Massoud Barzani, the president of Iraqi Kurdistan, voicing deep concern about a bill for the (...)

Published on 6 June 2011 Read

Attacks on journalists and media in Iraq and Yemen, two bloggers freed in Saudi Arabia

IRAQ Reporters Without Borders condemns the recent attacks on journalists by the Iraqi security forces. The authorities are resorting to every (...)

Published on 1 June 2011 Read

Star journalist sued by head of electoral commission

Reporters Without Borders condemns the libel suit that Faraj Haidari, the president of Iraq’s electoral commission, has brought against Hashem (...)

Published on 21 May 2011 Read

Ruling party lawsuit could force independent news magazine to close

The survival of Lvin Magazine, one of Iraqi Kurdistan’s leading independent publications, is threatened by a legal action brought yesterday by the (...)

Published on 18 May 2011 Read

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Middle East & North Africa - 4 August 2011

Alarming statement and constant harassment offer no respite for journalists

Middle East & North Africa - 4 August 2011

Arab Spring and repression continue from Rabat to Manama

Iraq - 3 August 2011

Government develops “National Internet” to combat international Internet’s impact

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Petition for the release of media workers held hostage in Iraq

At least 77 journalists and media assistants have been kidnapped in Iraq since March 2003. Twenty-three of them have been murdered, 40 have been released and 13 are still being held by their abductors.

Read the petition