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29/8/2022 Security forces near the Green Zone launched a brutal attack on press crews as they covered protests at the government palace building on Monday afternoon. Security forces have arrested Al-Jazeera and Al-Rasheed channels’ cadres, and beaten and insulted the staff of Al-Fallujah and Al-Arabiya …

8/8/2022 Forces affiliated to Saraya Alsalam  in Najaf prevented a number of media channels from covering a fire that erupted in one of its residencies. The forces detained the cameraman of al-Taghyir channel for documenting the incident on Monday morning. Mohammed Razzaq, correspondent of al-Taghyir …

6/8/2022 The Authorities in Kurdistan region continue chasing and suppressing on the background of the voices that were raised by civil actors to organize protests over several parts of the region. The forces have arrested the journalist Ayoub Warti, KNN correspondent, hours earlier in Erbil. …

6/8/2022 Since last Friday night, the security services in the Kurdistan region continue their clampdown of arresting 11 journalists until the moment of issuing this statement. This coincides with the errupting of demonstrations on Saturday in the cities of the region, where the number of …

29/7/2022 Sadri protestors closed down the Furat Channel Office in Basra on Friday evening. The Press Freedom Advocacy Association had learnt that the Sadrists closed the channel’s office on the background of the statements that were released by the Head of AlHikma bloc “Ammar AlHakim” …

18/6/2022 The Information and Communications Commission has issued a directive to all media where it prohibits the hosting of the brother of former Basra governor Ismail Masbah al-Waeli. The commission said in its directive that its decision  was based on Divan order 65 , article …

18/6/2022 The head of the Federal Police in Karbala, Maj. Gen. Saleh al-Ameri, insulted the Director of the Karbala branch of the Journalists’ Syndicate, Hussein al-Shammari, on Saturday evening. Al-Shammari, who also works as director of al-Iraqiya TV’s office in the province, was subjected to …

2/6/2022 Iraq’s Media Network suspended the “ ALmuhayid= The Neutral” program on the background of the political objections concerning the opinion of one of the program’s guests criticizing the Supreme Judicial Council. The network’s board of trustees issued its decision late Wednesday night and published …

24/5/2022 A security force arrested al-Baghdadia TV presenter Ali al-Thabhawi this morning as he was led to the intelligence headquarters to interrogate him to be released after four hours. The Press Freedom Advocacy Association in Iraq has learned that al-Thabhawi’s release came after a callfrom …

19/5/2022 The Press Freedom Advocacy Association in Iraq, in collaboration with the Center for the Future of Iraq and the Baghdad Foundation for the Defense of Victims of Opinion, held a dialogue session to discuss the possibility of restoring the Publishing Court under the motto …

3/5/2022 The annual monitoring Efforts of the Press Freedom  Advocacy Association in Iraq /PFAA indicates a similar setback to last year’s record of violations against journalists and press and media workers, through daily and immediate monitoring of all violations. During the reporting period, PFAA monitored …

Lawsuits against journalists in Iraq are on the rise, due to the political will to keep dictatorial laws in force to this day, in order to muzzle mouths and reduce the space for freedom of expression and constitutionally guaranteed journalistic work. Some parties and authoritarian …