مقالات رأي

14/6/2021 Columnist Hshar Ali continues to receive death threats for continuously criticizing the political situation and the deteriorating living conditions in Iraqi Kurdish region. Hshar, who left Sulaimaniyah six months ago, and settled in Britain in search of security and protection from the tyranny of …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

: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, …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …