March 16, 2025 – Kudish/Iraq – Sherwan Sherwani, a Kurdish investigative journalist and human rights defender, remains incarcerated in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq following a […]
March 12, 2025 – Kurdish/Iraq- Media freedom advocates and international watchdogs are urging the authorities in Iraqi Kurdistan to immediately release Voice of America (VOA) journalist […]
March 07, 2025 – Kurdish/Iraq – Kurdistan24 correspondent Anwar Abdullatif narrowly escaped harm on March 7, 2025, after a Syrian Ministry of Defense convoy he was […]
March 06, 2025 – Kurdish/Iraq/Turkey – The imprisonment of Öznur Değer, a Kurdish journalist with JINNEWS, has become a stark reminder of the ongoing state persecution […]
March 03, 2025 – Kurdish/Iraq – Iraq’s Kurdistan Region witnessed a troubling crackdown on independent journalism with the forced closure of the digital news outlet Media21 […]
February 01, 2025 – Kurdistan – A series of journalist arrests in Iraqi Kurdistan and northeastern Syria has drawn strong condemnation from international media watchdogs, highlighting […]
January 31, 2025 – Iraq/ Kurdistan – A court in Duhok sentenced Iraqi Kurdish journalist Omed Baroshky to six months in prison on charges of defamation […]
January 22, 2025 – Turkey/Iraq/Kurdistan – Turkish authorities detained Eylem Babayiğit, a Kurdish journalist and former contributor to the now-closed Özgür Gündem newspaper, during a raid […]
January 21, 2025 – Syria/ Kurdistan – Suleiman Ahmed, a Kurdish journalist and Arabic-section editor at Rojnews, was released on January 20, 2025, after being held […]