12/6/2021 Fuad AlHilfy, INews correspondent in Basra, was severely beaten by the hospital security guards in Basra. The incident took place yesterday, Friday. Alhilfy told Press Freedom Advocacy Association that he was on duty in the hospital to cover the status quo of the inpatients …
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Furat reporter escapes an assassination attempt amid government silence
10/5/2021 For more than 10 hours now, the Furat channel’s correspondent in Diwaniyah, Ahmed Hassan, has been an assassination target attempted by unidentified gunmen early Monday. The incident occurred in front of his home in Al-Shamia district while he was returning from the capital Baghdad, …
أكمل القراءة »“Press Freedom” Alliance launched in Iraq
5/6/2021 Several civil society organizations concerned with freedom of expression and press in Iraq, a number of independent local institutions and media bodies, and a gathering of journalists launched the founding framework of the Press Freedom Alliance. This came at a meeting sponsored by the …
أكمل القراءة »Al-Taghyir headquarters evacuated after Threats
31/5/2021 Al-Taghyir TV director Akram Zankana ordered the evacuation of the channel’s Baghdad office after receiving threatening letters to kill him and all his employees. Press Freedom Advocacy Association in Iraq learned from colleagues working in the channel about the evacuation of the headquarters that …
أكمل القراءة »Security forces prevent media from covering demonstrations in Baghdad
25/5/2021 Security forces have prevented several media outlets from covering the demonstrations that began this morning in The Nisour and Tahrir Squares Asia Correspondent Louay al-Hassan of the Press Freedom Advocacy Association reported that members of the security forces in Tahrir Square prevented him and …
أكمل القراءة »Results of the survey of journalists and media-workers on the performance of the Media and Communications Commission
:Introduction As part of the PAA’s efforts to defend press freedom and the rights of journalists and provide a safe legal environment for journalistic work in Iraq, the study was set to find out how the Media and Communications Commission, as a regulatory body, …
أكمل القراءة »Detention of Editor-in-Chief of “Diplomatic Magazine” in Sulaymaniyah
16/5/2021 The security authorities in Sulaymaniyah detained the editor-in-chief of the “Diplomatic Magazine”, Haymen Baqer, this morning, Sunday, after he responded to a report by the Bakhtiari police station. The coordinator of the Press Freedom Advocacy Association (PFAA) in in Sulaymaniyah stated that Haymen Baqer …
أكمل القراءة »Baghdad; the most dangerous area for Journalists
The Press Freedom Advocacy Association in Iraq underlined the continuity of abuses and violations that are uprooting press freedom in all its forms in the country. Levels of violations are not diminishing and preserve their past levels due to the lack of interference and no …
أكمل القراءة »Al-Sharqiya TV Attacked Inside parliament
1/4/2021 Al-Sharqiya TV crew was severely beaten while performing their duties in Parliament, Wednesday, and their equipment was destroyed. Correspondent Mohammed Saad told the Press Freedom Advocacy Association that he was on a private coverage yesterday with his colleague, photographer Ahmed Labib, to transmit the …
أكمل القراءة »Journalists injured by SWAT iron balls in Babylon
19/3/2021 A correspondent and cameraman for I News Agency were slightly injured while covering the protests in Babylon Osama al-Abedi, the correspondent told the Press Freedom Advocacy Association in Iraq thathe was hit in the back area by iron balls, while his cameraman, Mithal al-Dulaimi, …
أكمل القراءة »Nas correspondent attacked during Najaf protests
15/3/2021 Zaid al-Salami, a reporter for Nas news agency, suffered a severe suffocation on Monday as he was covering the protests in Najaf province Al-Salami told the Press Freedom Advocacy Association in Iraq that he was near the provincial building to convey the ongoingevents, and …
أكمل القراءة »Asia Correspondent Severely Beaten in Najaf
14/3/2021 Riot police severely beat Asia Correspondent HaidarSaleh while covering protests in Najaf Haidar said, on a telephone call, to the Press FreedomAdvocacy Association in Iraq, that he was surprised that members of the riot police beat him with batons while covering the protests in …
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