مقالات رأي

12/8/2020 A Security Force of Asayish severely beated the staff of the Payam TV channel consisting of a reporter and two cameramen, and confiscated their equipment in Erbil on Wednesday morning. Channel reporter Imran Amir said on a telephone conversation with the Press Freedom Advocacy …

12/8/2020 Security forces in Duhok raided the office of the NRT television channel and arrested all its employees shortly after the channel’s team was detained for covering demonstrations in Duhokon Wednesday to protest the deteriorating living and services situation. The channels manager, Omeid Muhammed informed …

10/8/2020 Members of the security forces responsible for protecting the Turkish hospital in Karbala prevented the staff of Al-Taghyir Channel from covering the fire that broke out inside the hospital on Monday morning. In the first few minutes of the fire, the channel’s correspondent in …

2/8/2020 Security forces in Kirkuk detained a reporter and cameraman for The Kurdistan 24 channel and prevented other journalists from covering peasant demonstrations in the province, and destroyed and confiscated the equipment of three cadres who came to cover the incident, Sundaymorning. Azad Shakur, A …

The Media and Communications Commission CMC, was established with the aim of organizing the media space in Iraq, by a decision issued by the Civil Authority in Iraq in 2004, Paul Bremer, to be temporary until a law is enacted clarifying the framework and structure …

28/7/2020 Riot police attacked the cameraman of Zaghros TV in Najaf province and confiscated his equipment while he wascovering the demonstrations on Monday evening. Fellow photographer Bashar Mahdi told  Press Freedom Advocacy Association in Iraq that he was on a mission to cover the angry …

26/7/2020 UTV announced the closure of its office in Baghdad after receiving threats from an unknown armed entity. The staff at the channel’s headquarters told Press Freedom Advocacy Association in Iraq that their office on Abu Nuwas Street had been closed after receiving threats from …

15/7/2020 The security of the Sheraton Hotel in Basra prevented the cadres of some satellite channels from covering the conference held by Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi upon his arrival this morning, in the province. Fouad al-Halfi, a reporter for the iNews channel, told Press Freedom …

06/07/2020 The Press Freedom Advocacy Association in Iraq offers condolences to the journalist family, and all local and international research centers, for the martyrdom of the journalist and security researcher Hisham Al-Hashemi, who was caught by treachery this evening in Baghdad. Al-Hashemi has participated in …

4/7/2020 Members of the Information Unit of the Diwaniyah Teaching Hospital prevented the correspondent of Radio Al-Mirbad (Dhiaa Al-Mohjah) from entering the hospital for media coverage, this Saturday morning. The reporter, Dhiaa, told the Press Freedom Advocacy Association in Iraq that he was heading this …

28/6/2020 Six months have passed since the assassination of journalists Ahmed Abdel Samad and Safaa Ghali, and the results of the government investigation are still kept secret. After the gruesome assassination of fellow journalists near Basra police headquarters, while returning from coverage of the popular …

24/6/2020 At least 22 local radio stations in Baghdad and the provinces have been shut down on the grounds that they have not paid off their debts. On the other hand, the commission allowed dozens of other broadcasting Agencies to continue operating despite their financial …