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By Shivan Fazil: Kurdish media are everywhere these days. There all sorts of media: Party media, government media, shadow media and free independent media. However, despite of their aims and objectives, there are few professional Kurdish media outlets. Professional media requires talented graduates from media institutes and schools, but so far, this is not the…
By Mohammed Hussein: On April 26, 2013, about 60 lawyers and journalists gathered to create a Net of Volunteer Lawyers to advocate journalism in Kurdistan and the rest of Iraq. This Net has been formed to assist journalists who plan to go to court to complain against people who attacked them, said Rahman Gharib, general…
KT News and Comment: Karzan Karim, an independent journalist who was working as a security officer at Erbil airport, was charged last year with divulging sensitive information to a third party and sentenced to two years imprisonment. Karim was jailed after the Kurdistan Post published articles in which he accused security agency authorities of corruption….
KT News and Comment: Journalists and human rights activists in Kurdistan and around the world are remembering Sardasht Osman who was murdered three years ago today. A group of writers and journalists are meeting in the Culture Cafe in Suli to launch a book that has been published to remember Sardasht’s life and his writing….
By Mufid Abdulla: This is an edited version of an article that first appeared on 11 May 2010, shortly after the brutal murder of Sardasht Osman. Three years on, journalists continue to be victimised in the south of Kurdistan and Sardasht’s killers still walk free. This is the shocking story of the young journalist, Sardasht…
KT News: Kurdistan Tribune columnist Kamal Chomani has been shortlisted in the 2013 International Media Awards. Kamal has been nominated for the Breakaway Award which “encourages new talent, in mainstream journalism as well as in the fields of internet news and citizen journalism”. Bookmark on Delicious Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Tweet about it…
By Dr M Koohzad: I have sent the following to Richard Allan ‘Rick’ Stengel, Managing Editor of ’Time’ magazine. Naturally, he ignored me and my comment. 21 Feb 2013 Dear Mr. Stengel, Recently, you published several articles in your magazine regarding the Kurds/Kurdistan written by Ms. Jay Newton-Small. I have read the following two. Full references…
By Human Rights Watch: Government Critics, Journalists Arbitrarily Detained, Prosecuted for Criticizing Authorities (Baghdad) – Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) should stop arbitrarily detaining journalists, activists, and political opposition figures, and end its prosecution of journalists for insulting or defaming public figures. The Asayish – the Kurdistan Security Agency – and police arrested without…
By NUJ (Manchester & Salford Branch): The UK National Union of Journalists’ Manchester and Salford branch has launched a campaign in support of a political journalist who fled Iraq in 2010 after being threatened as a result of newspaper articles he wrote at the time of the elections. Rzhwan Amin (Jaf), who has been living…
By Peace in Kurdistan: The following new Early Day Motion (EDM), entitled ‘Media Freedom in Turkey’, has been tabled in the UK Parliament : Turkey’s media crackdown and the disproportionate targeting of Kurdish or pro-Kurdish media has been receiving more and more attention from international NGO’s and activists. In particular, the Committee for the Protection of…
By Michael Rubin: The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC) has existed for less than a decade, but it has already established itself as among the most serious and least politicized human rights organizations. Amnesty International may make headlines, but it too often conflates leftist politics with human rights advocacy. Human Rights Watch (HRW), too,…
News Release By Human Rights Watch: (Beirut) – The Erbil Appellate Court should immediately set aside the October 7, 2012, conviction of an independent journalist who reported on alleged corruption in the regional government’s security agency. Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) authorities should conduct a prompt, thorough, and impartial investigation into allegations that the journalist, Karzam…
KT News and Comment: The Sulaymani high court has adjourned until 21 November the trial of two men accused of assaulting Awene editor-in-chief Asos Hardi. Asos Hardi was attacked by armed men in August 2011. Local police arrested four people and charged two of them. Bookmark on Delicious Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Tweet…
By Doğan Özgüden: Doğan Özgüden, Info-Türk Chief Editor, issued the following declaration on September 9, 2012, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the beginning of his journalistic career in Turkey: I began journalism in the Republic of Turkey at the age of 16 years in Izmir on September 9, 1952. It was the…
News from KT: The two men jailed for attempting to murder Livinpress editor Ahmed Mira have been released under a general amnesty issued by President Barzani and approved by the Kurdistan parliament . In Nov 2008 the Sulaymani security office charged these men and a court sentenced them sentenced to six years in jail. Bookmark…
