Committee to Protect Journalists: Security Forces in Iraqi Kurdistan Detain 8 Journalists in Duhok Covering Protest
May 19, 2020
May 19, 2020
NEW YORK, May 19 -- The Committee to Protect Journalists issued the following news on May 18:
The Committee to Protect Journalists condemned the detention of at least eight Kurdish Iraqi journalists covering a protest in Duhok on May 16 and called on the authorities in Iraqi Kurdistan to drop all charges pending against four of them.
On May 16, Kurdish security forces arrested at least eight journalists working for media outlets affiliated with the Kurdistan Islamic Uni . . .
The Committee to Protect Journalists condemned the detention of at least eight Kurdish Iraqi journalists covering a protest in Duhok on May 16 and called on the authorities in Iraqi Kurdistan to drop all charges pending against four of them.
On May 16, Kurdish security forces arrested at least eight journalists working for media outlets affiliated with the Kurdistan Islamic Uni . . .