"Reporters Without Borders voices its support for a demonstration being organized today in Darbandikhan, 65 km southeast of Sulaymaniyah, to defend two newspaper columnists and academics who are being sued by the ruling Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and, in general, to defend media freedom and free expression in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region."
The two Kurdish academics, Marwan Wrya Qani and Aras Fatah, are being prosecuted over the column they wrote jointly for the 8 June 2010 issue of the independent newspaper Awene entitled “What did the Kurdistan regional president say?”
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Iraq Demonstration in Support of Media 05-01-2011,39217(2)
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