This section shall document and raise the alarm regarding the violence against journalists and media workers in the Kurdistan Region and disputed territories of Iraq. in partnership with an international non-profit organization opened this platform on June 01, 2021 to help monitor growing press freedom violations and those against freedom of expression.

Media Monitoring

Countering online hate speech: creating counter narrative through good journalism and working with young people — 2022-05-08
Countering online hate speech: creating counter narrative through good journalism and working with young people

Kurdish authorities likely involved in kidnapping and murder of young journalist, newly published investigation

Kurdish authorities likely involved in kidnapping and murder of young journalist, newly published investigation

Kurdish authorities were likely directly involved in the 2010 kidnapping and murder of a young journalist, a newly published investigation by three...

280 violations against journalists in Iraq

280 violations against journalists in Iraq

The Press Freedom Advocacy Association in Iraq PFAA monitored 280 cases of violations against journalists from May 3, 2021 to May 2, 2022 per which Baghdad...

Journalists denounce access denial to Iraqi Kurdistan Parliament

Journalists denounce access denial to Iraqi Kurdistan Parliament

A group of journalists and media outlets criticize the presidency of Iraqi Kurdistan parliament for impeding coverage of parliament sessions while the...

Two-years-prison for Duhok prisoner

Two-years-prison for Duhok prisoner

A court of Iraqi Kurdistan Region IKR has found a civic activist, out of tens of Duhok prisoners, guilty and sentenced her of two-years-in-prison for terror...

Five of Badinan detainees to be released in six months

Five of Badinan detainees to be released in six months

The president of Iraqi Kurdistan Region IKRP per his power has reduced the conviction sentence for 5 of Badinan detainees from 6 years to to two years and...

Freelance reporter Omed Baroshki released

Freelance reporter Omed Baroshki released

The freelance reporter Omed Baroshki, one of the 82 detainees of Badinan, was freed on February 22nd following one-year-in-person verdict last September by...

Case No. 102

Case No. 102

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Even ordinary people miss no opportunity to attack journalists

Even ordinary people miss no opportunity to attack journalists

"First, they were 3-4 people all kicking and boxing me and later turned into about 10," Hadi Salimi, correspondent of Erbil-based Rudaw TV, recalled how he...

Journalists in disputed territories smashed between hammer and anvil

Journalists in disputed territories smashed between hammer and anvil

The journalists in the territories disputed between Baghdad-based federal government and Erbil-based Kurdistan regional government are at loss as the judges...

Amid conflict of PUK co-presidents, 100 journalists turned jobless

Amid conflict of PUK co-presidents, 100 journalists turned jobless

As the result of the conflict between the two co-presidents of the patriotic Union of Kurdistan PUK, one of the leading parties in Iraqi Kurdistan region...

Kurdistan Journalists’ Union deserts Kirkuk

Kurdistan Journalists’ Union deserts Kirkuk

The (Iraqi) Kurdistan Journalists' Syndicate closed Kirkuk office leaving behind 750 members without anyone to support them due to political conflicts...

Assaults against journalists dropped in October elections

Assaults against journalists dropped in October elections

Organizations and unions advocating for rights of journalists have recorded few instances of assaults against journalists in the general elections of...