Iraq … A Country in the Throes of Transformation and State Building
Oday Hatem Nearly 12 years after the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime, which was supposed to bring about a transition...
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Iraq: Bodyguards of the National Security Advisor Attack A Group of Journalists
Source: Gulf Center for Human Rights On 18 February 2015, a group of journalists was attacked by the bodyguards of...
The Iraqi Coalition for Freedom of Expression in Solidarity with the Sudanese Journalist Madiha Abdullah
Baghdad – Feb 10th, 2015 The Iraqi Coalition for Freedom of Expression is demanding that Sudanese authorities halt the prosecution...
The Iraqi Coalition for Freedom of Expression Participates in Parliamentary Hearing
Baghdad – Iraqi Woman Journalist’s Forum The Iraqi Coalition for Freedom of Expression participated, along with a group of media...
The Ministry of Communications Continue to Withhold Iraqi and Arab News Websites
17 Jan. 2015 – JFO Iraqi and Arab media institutions continue to suffer from blocking their websites inside Iraq, since...
KRG Authorities Detain a Journalist for One Year
2 Jan. 2015 – JFO The Journalistic Freedoms Observatory expressed its concern about the continuing detention of a journalist by...
Al-Qushla: Iraq’s Oasis of Free Expression
Al Jazeera – Baghdad On Friday mornings, Yasser Kian and his friends leave behind the pressures of work and school and...
Mission Report to Iraqi Kurdistan Finds Media and Civil Society at Risk!
2014-12-31 – gc4hr Many see Iraqi Kurdistan, an autonomous region in Northern Iraq, as a safe haven, a place of relative...
Iraqis Wage New Battle for Freedoms!
Shukur Khilkhal – Al-monitor The battle over civil liberties has erupted again, after a draft law written under the government of...
Between the Laws Inherited from the Era of Dictatorship and Legislation Seeking to Restrict Freedom of Expression and the Press in Iraq, The Reality is Not Consistent with the Principles of Democracy
Yasser Salem Executive Director of Press Freedom Advocacy Association in Iraq Paper prepared for the ICSSI Conference in Oslo, October...
Testimony about the Challenges Media Faces in Iraq after the Collapse of Mosul!
Journalist Saadoon Mohsen Damed Madarik Foundation Testimony submitted for ICSSI Conference Oslo – Norway – November 2014 Introduction: Talking about...
The Freedom of Expression Draft Law Restrict Freedoms and Recreates a Dictatorship!
Activists and Journalists Participate in a Seminar Organized by the Press Freedom Advocacy Association: Baghdad – November 15, 2014 On...