Just over a month ago, twenty-three year-old journalist Zardasht Othman was kidnapped and brutally murdered in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. His killers remain free. On 25 May, IPI published an open letter signed by eighteen foreign correspondents with long experience of covering Iraqi Kurdistan, who called on the president of the autonomous region, Massoud […]

Gunmen on Wednesday killed an Iraqi TV journalist – the second to be slain in two days – according to news reports. Al-Mosuliyah satellite television reporter Sabah al-Khayat was shot dead while leaving for work in the northern city of Mosul. On Tuesday, well-known al-Iraqiya television anchor and reporter Riyad al-Saray was killed by unknown […]

A freelance cameraman for US-funded Al-Hurra TV satellite channel was among 10 Iraqis killed in violence across Baghdad and the north of the country on Monday. Tahrir Kadhim Jawad was killed when a magnetic “sticky bomb” attached to his car detonated in the town of Garma, 50 km (30 miles) west of the Iraqi capital.  […]

Gunmen shot and killed a young journalist in Iraq, at home in front of his family on Sunday, CNN reported, quoting an Interior Ministry official. Mazin al-Baghdadi was employed as an anchor and reporter for al-Mousiliyya TV in Iraq’s northern city of Mosul, according to news reports. The gunmen were dressed as civilians, arrived at […]