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The state of human rights in Iraq

Since October 2019, the authorities have forcefully repressed national popular movements against government corruption and poor economic conditions, leading to gross and hostile violations on journalists, protestors, and human rights defenders, including incommunicado detention, arbitrary arrest, physical attacks, enforced disappearance, kidnapping, torture, ill-treatment, abductions, and targeted assassinations.

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Three journalists fired from their positions with State-owned newspaper Al-Sabah

Beirut, 16 January 2012 -- On 2 January 2012, Al-Sabah, a State-owned daily newspaper based in Baghdad announced that it had dismissed the head of the cultural

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Joint Event “No Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists in the Arab Region”
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  • 4/11/2025

To mark the 12th anniversary of the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists, observed on 02 November 2025, a group of local, regional, and

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End Impunity, Protect Journalists
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  • 2/11/2025

A Report published by the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) to mark the International Day to End Impunity in 2025, marked each year with partners on 02

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