UPDATE:  Journalist Muammar al-Khadir Abdul Wahid, of Eye Media News in Iraq, was killed during an assault on a government building in Tikrit, the second journalist to have lost his life in the attack, according to reports and to the news outlet’s website. On a statement on their website, the news service said: “God Almighty […]

In what seems to be a deterioration of conditions for journalists in volatile Iraq, the director of an Iraqi television station was killed in Baghdad today, according to a report from CNN.  Taha Hameed, the head of al-Massar TV, was driving with Iraqi human rights activist Abed Farhan Thiyab when they were “shot dead by […]

Hadi al-Mahdi, a radio show host and activist in Iraq, was killed in his home on Thursday, according to international news reports. Al-Mahdi hosted a thrice-weekly show called “To Whoever Listens” in which he criticized the government and the lack of public services, the Washington Post and others reported.  The outspoken activist stopped hosting the […]

A U.N. body of human rights experts has called for the release of nine journalists that Egypt is holding in connection with the bloody clearing of Cairo’s Rabaa Square in August 2013, saying that their detention is arbitrary and a violation of their human rights. The U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, in an opinion […]