Eighteen foreign correspondents with long experience of covering Iraqi Kurdistan have called, in an open letter to the president of the autonomous region, Massoud Barzani, and to Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, to launch an independent investigation into the murder of a young journalist who had criticised the authorities. Noting that they had each covered Kurdish […]

A journalist was kidnapped, tortured and killed in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, Iraqi security forces stated on Thursday. Zardasht Osman, who had been kidnapped two days earlier, was found on a highway. He had been shot two times in the head. The 23-year-old was a university student who freelanced for a number of online […]

Following the release of a video by Swedish whistleblower website Wikileaks showing the indiscriminate shooting of civilians, including two Reuters journalists, by US Army helicopters, IPI calls on the US government to investigate the actions of the army personnel involved. The video, which was released on Youtube and the Wikileaks website on Tuesday, involves footage filmed from an Apache helicopter, and […]

Two days after parliamentary elections in Iraq marked by a voter turnout of over 60% despite attacks that killed 38 people, IPI calls on any new Iraqi government to respect media freedom In the run-up to the 7 March polling, the Iraqi Communications and Media Commission (CMC) attempted to impose new restrictions on media outlets […]