Iraq - Iraq's Kurdish media victims of political crisis

Reporters without borders

News media and journalists are being hit hard by the chaos reigning in Iraq and the mounting tension between Kurds who are demanding Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki's resignation and Maliki, who accuses Iraqi Kurdistan of serving as a rear base for terrorism. One of the highest-profile cases has been an attack on the headquarters of Al-Taakhi, an Arabic-language daily based in Karrada (Bagdad), that supports the PDK, one of Kurdistan's two ruling parties, and is run by Masoud Barzani, (...)

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