Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is alarmed by a surge in press freedom violations in Iraqi Kurdistan, an autonomous region in northern Iraq where several journalists have just been arrested arbitrarily and freelance journalist Sherwan Sherwani’s jail term has just been extended.
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the flagrant lack of tolerance for opposition media in Iraqi Kurdistan, where the security forces harassed at least 60 journalists trying to cover anti-government protests in several of this autonomous region’s cities during the past weekend.