14/9/2020 Security officers of the 56th Brigade, which is tasked with protecting the Green Zone, attackedAl-Nujaba TV team and prevented them from covering a demonstration by a group of graduates on Monday morning. Presenter of programs in the channel, Mokhaldal-Faisal told the Press Freedom Advocacy …
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Asia banned by Al-Suqour
3/9/2020 Police officers in al-Saqour checkpoint prevented a reporter and cameraman from entering Anbar province to perform their work Thursday morning. Press Freedom Advocacy Association in Iraq learned from colleagues in the channel that their correspondent Mohammed Al-Farid was with cameraman Alaa Jabbar this morning …
أكمل القراءة »NRT Director Arrested in Sulaimaniya
2/9/2020 Sulaimaniyah police force arrested Shawan Adel, director of NRT satellite channel, on wednesdayafternoon after raiding the channel building. A statement issued by the channel said Adel was arrested on two files, one of which was filed by Shanaz Ibrahim Ahmed, sister of Heru Ibrahim …
أكمل القراءة »Protestors Set Dijla on Fire amidst strange Security Ease
31/8/2020 A number of protesters stormed the headquarters of Dijla Channel and broke all its equipment, setting fire to the building in response to the musical content aired by The Channel’s Tarab TV in conjunction with the night of the 10th of The Holy Month …
أكمل القراءة »Kurdish authorities continue to detain three journalists without charge
28/8/2020 KRG is still holding three journalists in detention of Dohuk and Zakho, but they do not know what kind of charges they have been arrested for. Press Freedom Advocacy Association has informed colleagues in Kurdistan of the deteriorating health of one of the detainees …
أكمل القراءة »Exclusion of Press overlooked by Security Forces in Karrada
26/8/2020 Security forces in Baghdad’s Karrada area continue to prevent media and journalists from passing through after 10:00 p.m., claiming that the High Commission has cancelled all exceptions. Journalists and media crews have been detained for long periods of time on several streets, intersections and …
أكمل القراءة »Ruz News correspondent injured in Sulaimaniyah
23/8/2020 Ruz News correspondent Mohammed Hassan Ibrahim was injured during the protest sit-in in Sulaimania province on Sunday. The injured told Press Freedom AdvocacyAssociaion in Iraq that he was shot while covering the demonstrations that started in the District, protesting the deteriorating economic and service …
أكمل القراءة »Karbala Governor Verbally Abuses Sumeria Staff
23/8/2020 The governor of Karbala, Nassif al-Khattabi, prevented the Sumerian TV team from performing their work, and verbally abused them inside the provincial council building on Sunday morning. Channel reporter Anwar Malik told the Press Freedom Advocacy Assdociation about his presence with his colleague Cameraman …
أكمل القراءة »KRG Incites Prosecution to close NRT
23/8/2020 The Kurdistan Regional Government’s Office of the Coordinator of International Recommendations issued a statement accusing NRT of inciting violence and sabotage after it reported protests in most areas of the region, calling on the Public Prosecutor to close it. PM office accused the channel …
أكمل القراءة »NRT Attacked by Asayish in Dohuk
20/08/2020 A security force from the Asayish closed the NRT channel office in Dohuk, seized all its equipment, and arrested other journalists in the region. The coordinator of the Press Freedom Advocacy Association in Iraq in Kurdistan reported that members of the Asayish raided the …
أكمل القراءة »Alhurra attacked in Basra
16/8/2020 Riot police severely beat a reporter and cameraman of al-Hurra TV in Basra while covering the demonstration, which erupted Sunday evening. The channel’s correspondent Najah al-Abedi said on a telephone conversation with Press FreedomAdvocacy Association in Iraq that she was with fellow cameraman Mohammed al-Hilali …
أكمل القراءة »Journalists’ Black Wednesday in Kurdistan
13/8/2020 Kurdistan Region witnessed a black Wednesday for journalists and media after the arrest and detention of many of them, the confiscation of equipment and the raid on the office of a satellite channel, and the cutting of the Internet, as well as the death …
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