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Iraq: A step forward and a step back in prime minister’s lawsuits against news mediaDate:29/05/2009 Reporters Without Borders deplores the libel suit that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has brought against the London-based Guardian newspaper...
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Friday, 29 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iraq: Amnesty International condemns attacks on Christian minorityDate:16/07/2009 Amnesty International is greatly concerned by the recent spate of attacks on Christian churches in Baghdad, which killed four civilians and injured more than 30 others...
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Thursday, 16 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iraq: ARTICLE 19 Comments on Draft Access to Information LawDate:18/01/2010 ARTICLE 19 has analysed the Access to Information Draft Law proposed in late 2009 by the Temkin, a group of independent experts which includes journalists and academics, in Iraq...
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Monday, 18 January 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iraq: Free Speech Protests in KurdistanDate:10/01/2011 More than a thousand protesters took to the main street in Erbil, the Kurdish regional capital, to condemn a new law requiring all public demonstrations to have government permits...
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Monday, 10 January 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
IRAQ: Gay-sex story lands writer in jailDate:09/12/2008 A court in northern Iraqs Kurdistan region has sentenced a freelance journalist to six months in prison and a fine for writing an article about gay sex, a penalty that media groups say violates the law and underscores the lack of press freedom in Kurdistan...
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Tuesday, 9 December 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iraq: Governement bill seen as opening way to online censorshipDate:10/08/2009 'Reporters Without Borders is very concerned about a new culture ministry bill that aims to ban certain websites as its scope is too vague and it needs to be more clearly defined...
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Monday, 10 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iraq: Historic day in Baghdad as IFJ launches journalism support programmeDate:29/05/2009 Leaders of journalists unions from around the world travelled to Baghdad at the weekend for a conference on support for media in Iraq - the first international meeting of any kind in the city since the war began six years ago...
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Friday, 29 May 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iraq: IFJ and ARTICLE 19 Pledge Support for UK Guardian Newspaper in Defamation CaseDate:26/01/2010 ARTICLE 19, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the affiliated Iraqi journalists’ union today called on the Iraqi authorities to drop charges of defamation against the British Guardian newspaper and its journalist, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad...
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Tuesday, 26 January 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iraq: Internal security threats suddenly off-limits for news mediaDate:27/08/2009 Reporters Without Borders is disturbed by the way the Iraqi authorities prevented the news media from covering bombings in Baghdad and the southern province of Babil on 19 and 20 August and an ensuing emergency parliamentary debate, in what appears to have been deliberate security policy...
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Thursday, 27 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iraq: Iraq Censorship Laws Move Ahead Date:04/08/2009 'BAGHDAD — The doors of the communications revolution were thrown open in Iraq after the American-led invasion in 2003: In rushed a wave of music videos featuring scantily clad Turkish singers, Web sites recruiting suicide bombers, racy Egyptian soap operas, pornography, romance novels, and American and Israeli news and entertainment sites that had long been blocked under Saddam Hussein’s rule...
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Tuesday, 4 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iraq: Iraq Censorship Laws Move Ahead Date:04/08/2009 The doors of the communications revolution were thrown open in Iraq after the American-led invasion in 2003: In rushed a wave of music videos featuring scantily clad Turkish singers, Web sites recruiting suicide bombers, racy Egyptian soap operas, pornography, romance novels, and American and Israeli news and entertainment sites that had long been blocked under Saddam Hussein’s rule...
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Tuesday, 4 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iraq: Iraq revives rules censoring booksDate:27/07/2009 Iraq's Ministry of Culture has revived regulations forbidding the import of some books, prompting critics to accuse it of restoring Saddam-era censorship...
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Monday, 27 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
IRAQ: Journalist murdered in KirkukDate:16/10/2008 The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the murder of Iraqi reporter Dyar Abas Ahmed, who was shot by unidentified gunmen in Kirkuk today, according to news reports and CPJ interviews...
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Thursday, 16 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iraq: Journalist Protection Law Needs to be ReviewedDate:27/04/2011 A Journalist Protection Law, prepared by the Iraqi Syndicate of Journalists and endorsed by the government of Iraq, has been laid before the Iraqi Parliament for its consideration...
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Wednesday, 27 April 2011Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
IRAQ: Kurdish press law draws mixed responseDate:20/10/2008 Although Iraqi Kurdistan's leaders have approved a new press law that affords journalists in the north more rights, some observers argue that the battle for freedom of expression in the region is far from over...
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Monday, 20 October 2008Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iraq: Protecting journalists in IraqDate:28/08/2009 Iraq remains the most dangerous country in the world to be a journalist and nearly 200 journalists and other media workers have been killed there since the US-led invasion in 2003...
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Friday, 28 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iraq: Shoe-thrower’s jail sentence reduced from three years to oneDate:08/04/2009 Reporters Without Borders notes that a Baghdad appeal court today reduced journalist Muntazer Al-Zaidi's sentence from three years to one year in prison...
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Wednesday, 8 April 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iraq: Shooting of human rights defender and journalist Mr Imad AbadiDate:27/11/2009 On 23 November 2009, journalist and human rights defender Mr Imad Abadi was shot in Baghdad...
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Friday, 27 November 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iraq: Unprecedented civil society demonstration in defence of press freedomDate:17/08/2009 Hundreds of journalists, academics, performers, politicians and ordinary Iraqis staged an unprecedented demonstration today on Moutanabi Street, in Baghdad’s old quarter, in solidarity with journalist Ahmed Abd Al-Hussein of the newspaper Al-Sabah, who has been the target of death threats from a Shiite political party...
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Monday, 17 August 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iraq shoe-thrower trial on Feb 19Date:09/02/2009 BAGHDAD (AFP) - The Iraqi journalist who famously threw his shoes at former US President George W...
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Monday, 9 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iraq, India and Mexico Most Deadly as 2008 Claims 104 Killings in Journalism, says IFJDate:06/01/2009 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today said that the number of work related killings of journalists significantly dropped in 2008 following three years of record levels...
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Tuesday, 6 January 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iraqi court rules Guardian defamed Nouri al-MalikiDate:10/11/2009 An Iraqi court has ordered the Guardian to pay Nouri al-Maliki damages of 100m dinar (£52, 000) after supporting a complaint by the Iraqi prime minister's intelligence service that he had been defamed by a Guardian story in April describing him as increasingly autocratic...
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Tuesday, 10 November 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Iraqi shoe-thrower's case is adjournedDate:20/02/2009 It was the hottest ticket in town...
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Friday, 20 February 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Seven Muslim protesters who shouted insults at homecoming troops were 'exercising their right to freedom of speech'Date:08/01/2010 Seven Muslim protesters who screamed insults at soldiers during an Iraq homecoming parade were simply exercising their freedom of speech, a court heard today...
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Friday, 8 January 2010Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
IraqDate:16/07/2009 Domestic, regional and international obligations related to freedom of expression in Iraq...
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Thursday, 16 July 2009Last Modified:
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Rights group says draft law on demonstrations would erode the rights of Iraqi citizensDate: 14/07/2011 "Human Rights Watch called on the Iraqi government Wednesday to revise a draft law it said contained provisions that violate international law..
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Thursday, 14 July 2011Last Modified:
Thursday, 14 July 2011
To Track Militants, U.S. Has System That Never Forgets a FaceDate: 13/07/2011 "When the Taliban dug an elaborate tunnel system beneath the largest prison in southern Afghanistan this spring, they set off a scramble to catch the 475 inmates who escaped...
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Wednesday, 13 July 2011Last Modified:
Thursday, 14 July 2011
Pakistan and Iraq most dangerous countries for journalistsDate: 12 October 2011 "Pakistan remains the most dangerous country for journalists to work in with eight killed there so far this year. According to figures from the World ...
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Wednesday, 12 October 2011Last Modified:
Thursday, 13 October 2011