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Annual report by Metro Center about
Violations against journalists in Iraqi Kurdistan
Region in 2011
23.1.2012
By Thomas v. der Osten-Sacken - WADI
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January
23, 2012
SULAIMANIYAH,
Kurdistan region 'Iraq', —
Metro center to defend
journalists declares that violations against
journalists and media channels in Kurdistan region
in 2011 is seen as a dangerous indicator. It is the
highest record for violations during the last two
decades of Kurdish administration.
Metro center recorded 359 cases of violations in
different forms. Four cases were injured by gun
fire, 8 cases of setting fire to media offices and
channels, 85 cases of physical abuse, 57 cases of
verbal threats, 52 cases of arrest and detention, 81
cases prevented from doing their duties, 9 breaking
media equipments, 9 cases of assaults on houses of
journalists and media channels. In 9 cases,www.ekurd.net
journalists were shot be gun fire, 41 cases their
equipments were seized, 2 media channels were
targeted by gun fire, one journalist targeted by
explosive bomb and finally a car of a journalist was
burnt down.
Annual report by Metro Center about Violations
against journalists in Iraqi Kurdistan Region in
2011
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Thomas von der Osten-Sacken is the director of WADI
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