Iraq - Democracy and free expression under threat in Iraqi Kurdistan

“You have guns, we have pens,” was the message that the Sulaymaniyah-based independent newspaper Hawlati (Citizen) printed on an otherwise blank front page on 24 February in a bold protest against a spate of threats, harassment and physical violence against journalists in Iraqi Kurdistan in the run-up to a parliamentary election on 6 March. Hawlati's front page is just one example of the growing protests by Kurdish intellectuals and independent media against abuses by the Kurdish security (...)

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