Introduction The year 2020 was different at all levels, but for the press scene in Iraq, not much has changed in terms of the violations affecting them, despite the Corona...

تمهيد: جاء عام 2020 مختلفا هذه المرة على جميع الأصعدة، وقد نالَ الصحفيون نصيبا من هذا الاختلاف من خلال الانتهاكات التي طالتهم؛ فعلى الرغم من جائحة كورونا التي ما تزال...

26/12/2020 The journalist Sherwan Sherwani is still languishing in the prisons of the Kurdistan Region and faces an unknown fate after the Asayish forces arrested him more than two months...

26/12/2020 مايزال الكاتب الصحفي شيروان شيرواني يقبع في سجون اقليم كردستان ويواجه مصيرا مجهولا بعد ان اعتقلته قوات الاسايش منذ اكثر من شهرين. واعتقلت حكومة الاقليم شيرواني الذي يعمل كصحفي...

25/12/2020 احتجزت عناصر من امن مطار السليمانية مدير مؤسسة ناليا الاعلامية "اوات علي". وذكر منسق جمعية الدفاع عن حرية الصحافة بالسليمانية ان عناصر من امن المطار قاموا باحتجاز اوات صباح...

25/12/2020 Security officers at Sulaimania airport detained the director of Nalia media organization, Awat Ali. Press Freedom Advocacy Association coordinator reported that Upon his arrival from Sweden at Sulaimania airport,...

24/12/2020 An Iraqi media presenter, Ahmed Shukri, had his car burned in front of his home in Baghdad by unknown assailants. Shukri told the Press Freedom Advocacy Association that he...

١٦/١٢/٢٠٢٠ أصدرت وزارة الثقافة في اقليم كردستان قرارا يقضي بتمديد فترة اغلاق قناة NRT في الاقليم اسبوعا اخرا. وعلمت جمعية الدفاع عن حرية الصحافة في العراق من مدير مكتب القناة...

12/14/2020 Security forces in Kirkuk governorate arrested a number of reporters while performing their duties in a village in the governorate, and took them to an unknown destination. The coordinator...

13/12/2020 A security force from Asaish arrested a Ruz news reporter from his workplace in Erbil leading him to an unknown destination. Press Freedom Advocacy Associaton in Iraq  coordinator in...

13/12/2020 Diyala Provincial Council Chairman Muthanna Al-Tamimi issued an order banning Al-Change TV reporter Hassan al-Shammari from entering the provincial headquarters and performing his work. Al-Shammari, in a telephone conversation...

13/12/2020 A group of security elements of the Basra International Stadium prevented the Iq News Agency reporter from performing his duties while he was inside the stadium. The coordinator of...