Iraqi Kurdistan: Growing Effort to Silence Media

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In: Free Expression, Iraq, Kurdistan, Media, Middle East Uprising, Middle East/N. Africa, PKK, Press Freedom, Press release
Kurdistan regional government officials and security forces are carrying out a growing assault on the freedom of journalists to work in Iraqi Kurdistan. Regional officials should stop repressing journalists through libel suits, beatings, detentions, and death threat.

(New York) – Kurdistan regional government officials and security forces are carrying out a growing assault on the freedom of journalists to work in Iraqi Kurdistan, Human Rights Watch said today. Regional officials should stop repressing journalists through libel suits, beatings, detentions, and death threats, Human Rights Watch said.

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