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Same">Rudaw in English: Iranian Kurdish Leader: PJAK and PKK Are The Same</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/category/english-articles/" title="View all posts in English Language Articles" rel="category tag">English Language Articles</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/category/iraq/" title="View all posts in News" rel="category tag">News</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/barzani/" rel="tag">Barzani</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/border-guards/" rel="tag">border guards</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/iran-vs-pkk/" rel="tag">Iran vs. PKK</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/iraqi-kurdistan/" rel="tag">Iraqi kurdistan</a>, <a 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are ready to offer anyone a clean slate,”</p> <p>During the seminar that was organized by KDPI’s Germany branch, Azizi said, “In politics a clean slate wouldn’t be given to anyone and we wouldn’t offer it to anyone.”</p> <p>Regarding a possible meeting with the PJAK to discuss the unification of both parties, Azizi said, “If we decide to meet with PJAK we will meet with the PKK instead, because they are the same.”</p> </p></div> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/11/13/rudaw-in-english-iranian-kurdish-leader-pjak-and-pkk-are-the-same/#more-13901" class="more-link">» أقرأ التفاصيل .. | Read the rest of this entry »</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-13785"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/10/12/iraqi-kurds-offer-christians-a-sanctuary-reliefweb/#respond" title="Comment on Iraqi Kurds Offer Christians a Sanctuary | ReliefWeb">No Comments</a></span> Posted on October 12th, 2011 by Nabil</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/10/12/iraqi-kurds-offer-christians-a-sanctuary-reliefweb/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Iraqi Kurds Offer Christians a Sanctuary | ReliefWeb">Iraqi Kurds Offer Christians a Sanctuary | ReliefWeb</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/category/english-articles/" title="View all posts in English Language Articles" rel="category tag">English Language Articles</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/archbishop-louis-sako/" rel="tag">Archbishop Louis Sako</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/chaldean/" rel="tag">chaldean</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/christian-families/" rel="tag">christian families</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/christians/" rel="tag">Christians</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/christians-in-iraq/" rel="tag">christians in iraq</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/iraqi-christians/" rel="tag">iraqi christians</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/iraqi-kurdistan/" rel="tag">Iraqi kurdistan</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/iwpr/" rel="tag">IWPR</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/kirkuk/" rel="tag">Kirkuk</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/kurdistan/" rel="tag">Kurdistan</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/local-government/" rel="tag">Local Government</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/patriotic-union-of-kurdistan/" rel="tag">patriotic union of kurdistan</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/puk/" rel="tag">PUK</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/sectarian-violence/" rel="tag">sectarian violence</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <div style="text-align: left; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr"> <div style="border-bottom: black 1px solid; border-left: black 1px solid; padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 15px; padding-left: 5px; width: 48%; padding-right: 5px; float: right; border-top: black 1px solid; border-right: black 1px solid; padding-top: 5px"> <p>They have fled in droves to escape sectarian violence, but now Kurdish politicians are helping some rebuild their lives.</p> <p>By Samah Samad – Iraq</p> <p>ICR Issue 380, 12 Oct 11</p> </p></div> <p>The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, PUK, party is offering homes to poor Christian families uprooted by sectarian violence in what it says is a humanitarian gesture, denying suggestions the move is designed to boost its electoral base in the disputed Kirkuk region.</p> <p>Since the 2003 United States-led invasion, Iraqi Christians have often been the target of violence by Islamist extremists, forcing more than 200,000 of them to leave Iraq.</p> <p>In the worst outrage in October 2010, al-Qaeda-linked militants stormed a church in central Baghdad, killing over 60 people.</p> <p>In an effort, the PUK says, is aimed at alleviating their plight, the joint ruling party in Iraqi Kurdistan has provided 200 plots of land and 10,000 US dollar grants to low-income Christian families in a gated compound in Se Ganian (The Three Springs in Kurdish), a Kurdish village destroyed by Saddam, ten kilometres north of Kirkuk.</p> <p>While commentators acknowledge the plan is well-intentioned, they suggest it may be strategic too.</p> <p>“This initiative is humanitarian but also a political move to get more votes for [the PUK’s] next campaign in Kirkuk,” said Mohammad Ameen, a political analyst and a professor at Kirkuk university.</p> </p></div> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/10/12/iraqi-kurds-offer-christians-a-sanctuary-reliefweb/#more-13785" class="more-link">» أقرأ التفاصيل .. | Read the rest of this entry »</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-13269"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/05/05/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ae%d9%85%d9%8a%d8%b3-5-%d9%85%d8%a7%d9%8a%d9%88-2011/#respond" title="Comment on الخميس, 5 مايو 2011">No Comments</a></span> Posted on May 5th, 2011 by Ali Ibn 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rel="tag">بغداد</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/%d8%aa%d9%83%d8%b1%d9%8a%d8%aa/" rel="tag">تكريت</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/%d8%af%d9%8a%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%89/" rel="tag">ديالى</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <div dir="rtl" align="right"> <div style="border-bottom: black 1px solid; border-left: black 1px solid; padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 15px; padding-left: 5px; width: 47%; padding-right: 5px; float: right; border-top: black 1px solid; border-right: black 1px solid; padding-top: 5px">  <p><b>ارتفاع عدد ضحايا التفجير الانتحاري في الحلة الى 105 شهيد وجريح</b></p> <p>ارتفع عدد ضحايا التفجير الانتحاري الذي وقع صباح اليوم في مدينة الحلة الى 105شهيد وجريح. <br/>وافاد مصدر امني "ان عدد الضحايا بلغ 30 شهيدا و75 جريحا معظمهم من عناصر الشرطة". <br/>وكان انتحاري يقود سيارة مفخخة قد اقتحم مركزا لتجمع آليات شرطة النجدة في شارع 40 وسط مدينة الحلة.</p> </p></div> <p><font color="#800000"><strong>أخبار عالمية</strong></font></p> <p><strong>عائلة الصحافي سردشت تتهم سلطات كردستان بالتقصير في تحقيقاتها بمقتله <a title="sardasht_osman by Gorillas Guides, on Flickr" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://www.flickr.com/photos/gorillasguides/4591951505/" class="external" target="_blank"><img style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" alt="sardasht_osman" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627im_/http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4029/4591951505_1af41a2d5f_m.jpg" width="175" height="189"/></a></strong></p> <p>اتهمت عائلة صحافي كردي عراقي قتل قبل عام السلطات في اقليم كردستان بالتقصير في التحقيق بالجريمة، مجددة </p> </p></div> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/05/05/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ae%d9%85%d9%8a%d8%b3-5-%d9%85%d8%a7%d9%8a%d9%88-2011/#more-13269" class="more-link">» أقرأ التفاصيل .. | Read the rest of this entry »</a></p> </div> </div> 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"All sides have shown quite a lot of restraint, but if something were to happen it could boil over."</p> <p>Saffar noted that if protesters in Sulaimaniyah were attacked en masse by security forces, "the reputational damage will be immense."</p> <p>"Kurdistan has spent millions in Washington lobbying the US government, and if any crackdown were to happen, it would push back relations a great deal," he said.</p> <p>The three-province region, whose assembly makes decisions independent of Baghdad in most policy areas, is reputed for being markedly safer than the rest of Iraq, where hundreds still die on a monthly basis in insurgent violence.</p> <p>As a result, several foreign firms have invested in the region: the only international chain hotel in Iraq is in the Kurdish capital of Arbil, and several shopping malls have recently been built or are under construction with foreign financing.</p> <p>But high levels of unemployment, graft and nepotism in Kurdistan, which has been ruled by two-parties for decades, sparked street protests in Sulaimaniyah from mid-February, fuelled by uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt.</p> <p>In three straight days of rallies this week more than 100 protesters were wounded when security forces attempted to disperse demonstrations.</p> <p>Kurdish security officials and local non-governmental organisations said more than 300 protesters had been detained since Saturday at the protests.</p> <p>Paris-based watchdog Reporters Without Borders noted in a statement on Thursday that it was "deeply shocked by a spate of arbitrary arrests," while Human Rights Watch in New York called on Kurdish authorities to "end their widening crackdown on peaceful protests."</p> <p>"The demonstrations started especially with the young generation," said Asos Hardi, a Sulaimaniyah-based Kurdish journalist. "The uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt were the main spurs of the protest but, very quickly, a wider section of society joined in."</p> <p>"If you go back and read reports from international organisations about human rights, freedoms, management and corruption in Kurdistan, you can understand why people are angry with their leaders," added Hardi, who helped found two of the region’s biggest independent newspapers.</p> <p>He noted, however, that despite the poisonous views the protesters and government had of each other, there was still hope for dialogue.</p> <p>Sulaimaniyah, reputed as the intellectual capital of the region, has long been a bastion of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani’s Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. A faction of the PUK, however, split in 2009 and went into opposition.</p> <p>In the regional capital of Arbil, by contrast, the Kurdistan Democratic Party of regional president Massud Barzani retains a tight grip.</p> <p>A poll conducted by the Washington-based International Republican Institute in December offered hints for the causes behind the anger in Sulaimaniyah.</p> <p>Some 62 percent of respondents in Sulaimaniyah said Kurdish MPs were not listening to their needs, and 35 percent said the economic situation in Kurdistan was either "somewhat bad" or "very bad," both of which were the highest in the region.</p> <p>"The KDP and the PUK must change," said Mahmud Othman, an independent Kurdish MP in the Iraqi parliament in Baghdad. "They need to change, definitely, but are they capable, are they serious? That is what remains to be seen."</p> <p>Regardless of possible change, independent journalist Hardi insisted the two months of protests marked a crucial shift in Kurdistan.</p> <p>"Everything in our history has been about protecting our existence as a culture, as a nation, as a people," Hardi said. "But now, these protests are about changing and improving our existence."</p> </blockquote> <blockquote><p><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=45727" target="_blank" class="external">Middle East Online</a></p> </blockquote> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-13087"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/04/22/iraq-widening-crackdown-on-protests-human-rights-watch/#respond" title="Comment on Iraq: Widening Crackdown on Protests | Human Rights Watch">No Comments</a></span> Posted on April 22nd, 2011 by Abdus-Samad</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/04/22/iraq-widening-crackdown-on-protests-human-rights-watch/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Iraq: Widening Crackdown on Protests | Human Rights Watch">Iraq: Widening Crackdown 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/tahrir-square-protestor-arrests/" rel="tag">Tahrir Square protestor arrests</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/tahrir-square-protests/" rel="tag">Tahrir Square Protests</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/%d9%85%d9%8a%d8%af%d8%a7%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%aa%d8%ad%d8%b1%d9%8a%d8%b1%e2%80%8e/" rel="tag">ميدان التحرير‎</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/%d8%a3%d8%b3%d8%a7%d9%8a%d8%b4/" rel="tag">أسايش</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>Kurdistan authorities should end their widening crackdown on peaceful protests in northern Iraq, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities should hold accountable those responsible for attacking protesters and journalists in Arbil and Sulaimaniya since April 17, 2011, including opening fire on demonstrators and beating them severely, Human Rights Watch said.</p> <p>Human Rights Watch also called on Iraqi authorities in Baghdad to investigate the detention and torture of a protester, Alaa Nabil, and to charge or release more than two dozen activists held in a prison in Baghdad’s Old Muthanna Airport. Central government and Kurdistan Regional Government authorities should revoke their recent bans on unlicensed demonstrations in Sulaimaniya province and on street protests in Baghdad, Human Rights Watch said.</p> <p>"Iraqi authorities in Kurdistan and Baghdad need to rein in their security forces and protect the right to protest peacefully," said Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. "The Iraqi political authorities need to end their knee-jerk responses and stop banning protests, detaining demonstrators, and beating journalists."</p> <h3>Repression in Kurdistan</h3> <p>In the afternoon of April 18 in Arbil, the Kurdistan capital, dozens of armed men in civilian clothes attacked students from the Kurdistan region’s largest university, Salahadin, as they tried to hold a demonstration. Witnesses told Human Rights Watch that the assailants also attacked journalists and at least one member of parliament.</p> <p>A third-year Salahadin student told Human Rights Watch that a large group of organized assailants wearing civilian clothes attacked the protesters with brute force.</p> <p>"We chanted ‘freedom, freedom,’ and then security forces came and abolished the demonstration," the student said. "They were hitting people by knives and sticks … and arrested 23 protesters."</p> <p>The assailants beat Muhamad Kyani, a member of the Iraqi national parliament for the opposition party Goran (Change) List, and his bodyguard while they were walking away from the demonstration. "There was no violence from us, nothing happened from our side to incite them," Kyani told Human Rights Watch. "I was on my way to the car when the Asayish [the official security agency for the Kurdistan region] threw me to the ground and started to kick and beat me." Kyani had two black eyes and other minor injuries from the beating. "They just wanted to intimidate and insult me and those with me," he said. "During the beating they swore at us and called me a traitor."</p> <p>Reporters without Borders documented attacks on at least 10 journalists covering the April 18 protest. The group said assailants also detained numerous journalists, including Awara Hamid of the newspaper <em>Rozhnam, </em>Bahman Omer of <em>Civil Magazine</em>, Hajar Anwar, bureau chief of the Kurdistan News Network, and Mariwan Mala Hassan, a KNN reporter, as well as two of the station’s cameramen.</p> <p>Shwan Sidiq of <em>Civil Magazine</em> was hospitalized after the assailants broke his hand. "My hand is broken, my head still hurts," he told Human Rights Watch. "What I saw was what in 1988 Saddam Hussein did against me and my family."<strong></strong></p> <p>Security forces of the Kurdistan Regional Government and the two ruling parties there, the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, have used repressive measures against journalists since the start of the protests in Iraq on February 17. The local press freedom group Metro Center has documented more than 150 cases of attacks and harassment of Kurdish journalists since February 17. In March, Human Rights Watch interviewed more than 20 journalists covering the protests in Kurdistan.</p> <p>"Time and again we found that security forces and their proxies violate journalists’ freedom of expression through death threats, arbitrary arrests, beatings, harassment, and by confiscating and vandalizing their equipment," Stork said.</p> <p>In Sulaimaniya, daily clashes since April 17 have injured more than 100 protesters, journalists, and security forces. Witnesses told Human Rights Watch that on April 17 security forces fired live ammunition into the air to clear protesters blocking a road, while others shot into the crowd indiscriminately, wounding at least seven demonstrators.</p> <p>"Police and security forces used everything to attack us," one protester told Human Rights Watch. "They opened fire, threw stones, used sticks and their Kalashnikovs to keep us from demonstrating."</p> <p>Protest organizers told Human Rights Watch that on April 18, security forces violently seized control of Sara Square, the center of daily protests in Sulaimaniya since February 17, and demolished the protesters’ podium. Security forces have fanned out across the city and have refused to allow protesters back to the site – renamed Azadi (Freedom) Square by demonstrators – resulting in clashes on April 18 and 19.</p> <p>On March 6, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2011/03/07/iraqi-kurdistan-prevent-attacks-protesters" class="external" target="_blank">masked assailants attacked demonstrators</a> and set their tents on fire but failed to evict protesters from the site.</p> <p>On April 19, protest organizers said, security forces detained dozens of students and others in and around Sulaimaniya, releasing most later in the day. One law undergraduate told Human Rights Watch that security forces attacked her and other protesters at the Dukan checkpoint on their way to Sulaimaniya.</p> <p>"We were forced to get off the buses," she said. "They threatened if we went [to the protest], we would be killed. A friend of mine asked them not to shoot us because we have pens and not guns, but when he raised his pen security forces opened fire and he was badly injured."</p> <p>Since then, this student said, she has received anonymous threatening phone calls telling her not to return to Sulaymaniya. Security forces raided Koya University, where she studies, and arrested two students. Their whereabouts remain unknown.</p> <p>The family of a prominent Kurdish writer and activist, Rebin Hardi, told Human Rights Watch that security forces severely beat him during and after his arrest on April 19 for participating in a protest in front of the Sulaimaniya courthouse. Photos taken after his release later that day viewed by Human Rights Watch showed severe swelling up and down the right sight of his body including his eye, arm, and thigh.</p> <p>Since February 17, clashes with security forces have killed at least seven civilians and injured more than 250 demonstrators in Kurdistan, but thousands have continued to protest alleged corruption and the political dominance of the KDP and PUK.</p> <p>On April 19, the government’s Security Committee for Sulaimaniya Province banned all unlicensed demonstrations. Legislation passed by the Kurdistan Regional Government in December gives authorities wide discretion in deciding whether to approve a license for a protest. The law’s wording is exceptionally vague and susceptible to abuse, Human Rights Watch said. Under article 3(c) of the law, authorities can reject a request if "the protest will damage the system or public decency."</p> <h3>Protests in Baghdad</h3> <p>Iraqi security forces in Baghdad are detaining and abusing activists in connection with protests against the chronic lack of basic services and perceived widespread corruption. On April 8, security forces in a vehicle with markings from the 43rd Brigade of the Army’s 11th Division, arrested Nabil at the end of a peaceful protest at Tahrir Square. He was immediately transferred to other security forces in civilian clothing, and held for a week.</p> <p>Released on April 15, Nabil, an organizer of the February 25 Group – one of several groups planning demonstrations in the capital – told Human Rights Watch that he had been beaten repeatedly while his hands were held behind his back with plastic zip-ties, and often while blindfolded. He said his captors also used a stun gun on his arms, chest, and back.</p> <p>"I heard them giving orders to shock us and hit us only below the neck, so there wouldn’t be any marks. They shocked me and hit me on the arms and back and chest," he said. "I got a cut on my head that was bleeding, and one of the guards yelled at another who caused it. ‘Why did you make him bleed? He is a son of a bitch and will make a scandal for us. Do not leave any marks. Hit him in places where there will be no marks.’"</p> <p>Nabil said his captors went through his cell phone and told him, "We know all these numbers, and we are watching and listening to all your calls.’"</p> <p>Nabil had previously been arrested on March 22, and Human Rights Watch witnessed signs of physical abuse immediately after his release from that detention. Human Rights Watch sent inquiries about Nabil’s arrest and others to the offices of the prime minister and security officials but has received no response from authorities.</p> <p>On April 13, security forces entered the adjoining offices of the Federation of Workers Councils and Unions in Iraq (FWCUI) and the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), where the February 25 Group has held meetings in Baghdad. The security forces arrested one of the group’s members, Firas Ali, who has peacefully participated in several of the Tahrir Square demonstrations.</p> <p>A protester detained in early April for taking part in demonstrations at Tahrir Square told Human Rights Watch upon his release that he saw Ali inside a prison in Baghdad’s Old Muthanna Airport. The witness said Ali was being held with more than two dozen protesters, 20 of whom were detained on the day of the April 15 demonstration.</p> <p>Human Rights Watch is also concerned about Haydar Shihab Ahmad, also from the February 25 Group, who has been missing since April 1, just after taking part in that day’s demonstration in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square. Members of his family told Human Rights Watch that they have made several inquiries at prisons in Baghdad in unsuccessful attempts to locate him, and have received no official reply about whether he has been detained.</p> <p>"Iraqi authorities need to release any peaceful protester held incommunicado and without charge, and account for those it is charging with a criminal offense," Stork said.</p> <p>Iraqi authorities have taken several steps to eliminate protests in the capital from public view. On April 13, officials issued new regulations barring street protests and allowing them only at three soccer stadiums.</p> <p>"We have specified Al-Shaab, Kashafa and Zawraa stadiums as permitted sites for demonstrations in Baghdad instead of Ferdus or Tahrir squares," Baghdad’s security spokesman, Major General Qassim Atta, said at a news conference televised by the state broadcaster, Iraqiyya TV. "Many shop owners and street vendors have called us and complained to us because demonstrations have affected their work and the movement of traffic."</p> <p>In late February, Iraqi police <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2011/02/17/iraq-investigate-protester-deaths" class="external" target="_blank">allowed dozens of assailants</a> to beat and stab peaceful protesters in Baghdad. In the early hours of February 21, dozens of men, some wielding knives and clubs, attacked about 50 protesters who had set up two tents in Tahrir Square. During nationwide February 25 protests, security forces killed at least 12 protesters across the country and injured more than 100. On that day, Human Rights Watch observed Baghdad security forces beating unarmed journalists and protesters, smashing cameras, and confiscating memory cards.</p> <p>On June 25, 2010, in response to thousands of Iraqis who took to the streets to protest a chronic lack of government services, the Interior Ministry issued onerous regulations that <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2010/09/17/iraq-stop-blocking-demonstrations" class="external" target="_blank">effectively impeded Iraqis from organizing</a> lawful protests. The regulations required organizers to get "written approval of both the minister of interior and the provincial governor" before submitting an application to the relevant police department.</p> <p>Iraq’s constitution guarantees "freedom of assembly and peaceful demonstration."As a state party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Iraq is obligated to protect the rights to life and security of the person, and the rights to freedom of expression, association, and peaceful assembly. Iraq should also abide by the United Nations Basic Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms, which state that lethal force may only be used when strictly unavoidable to protect life, and must be exercised with restraint and proportionality. The principles also require governments to "ensure that arbitrary or abusive use of force and firearms by law enforcement officials is punished as a criminal offense under their law."</p> <p><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2011/04/21/iraq-widening-crackdown-protests" class="external" target="_blank">Iraq: Widening Crackdown on Protests | Human Rights Watch</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-11471"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/09/18/%d8%b9%d8%a7%d8%a6%d9%84%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b5%d8%ad%d9%81%d9%8a-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d8%b1%d8%a7%d9%82%d9%8a-%d8%b3%d8%b1%d8%af%d8%b4%d8%aa-%d8%b9%d8%ab%d9%85%d8%a7%d9%86-%d8%aa%d8%b1%d9%81%d8%b6/#respond" title="Comment on عائلة الصحفي العراقي سردشت عثمان ترفض نتائح التحقيق في مقتله">No Comments</a></span> Posted on September 18th, 2010 by 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height="325" alt="sardasht_osman" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627im_/http://static.flickr.com/4029/4591951505_1af41a2d5f.jpg" width="300" align="left" border="0"/></a> <p>اربيل: اعلنت عائلة صحفي عراقي كردي  انها ترفض وتندد بنتائج التحقيق المعلنة حول مقتله وخصوصا اتهامه بالارهاب، وذلك بعد اعلان سلطات اقليم كردستان مسؤولية جماعة "انصار الاسلام" عن هذه الجريمة. واكد بيان موقع باسم شقيق القتيل بكر عثمان "نعلن صراحة اننا لا نرفض فقط نتائج التحقيق انما ندين هذا العمل ونعرب عن استيائنا لهذه المحاولات الفاشلة في الصاق تهمة الارهاب بشقيقي سردشت واتهامه بالتعاون مع جماعة انصار الاسلام". </p> <p>واضاف< "هذه الدعاية التي لا اساس لها آلمتنا كثيرا (…) ادعو جميع الذين يدافعون عن حقوق الانسان الى تقديم الدعم لنا امام هذا التهجم العلني". واكد عثمان ان شقيقه القتيل كان صاحب توجهات علمانية بعيدة عن التطرف والارهاب لان من "عرفه عن كثب او قرأ كتاباته كان يعرف تماما انه شخص علماني لم يكن ملتزما قيد شعرة بالافكار الارهابية فهذه التهمة لا اساس لها وبعيدة عن الحقيقة”. وطالب بتشيكل لجنة مستقلة للتحقيق قائلا "لقد اعلنت مرارا ان هذه اللجنة لن تستطيع التحقيق في مقتل شقيقي (…) يجب تشكيل لجنة مستقلة تضم ممثلين عن المنظمات الدولية والصحفيين ومنظمات المجتمع المدني”. وقد اعلنت لجنة التحقيق التي شكلها رئيس الاقليم مسعود البرزاني ان "سردشت عثمان تمت تصفيته من قبل جماعة انصار الاسلام الارهابية بعد ان وعدها بالعمل لصالحها ثم تراجع عن تنفيذ مهمات اسندت اليه”. يذكر ان عثمان تعرض للخطف في مطلع ايار الماضي امام مدخل كلية الاداب في جامعة صلاح الدين وعثر عليه مقتولا في اليوم الثاني في احد احياء الموصل. وكانت احزاب المعارضة وضمنها "حركة التغيير" اتهمت حينذاك قوات الامن الكردية التابعة للحزب الديموقراطي الكردستاني بخطف وقتل عثمان. وقد تأسست الجماعة في كانون الاول 2001 وورد اسمها على اللائحة الاميركية للمنظمات الارهابية. والجماعة التي كان مقرها منطقة جبلية وعرة في كردستان العراق قرب حدود ايران كانت هدفا لغارات كثيفة من الطيران الاميركي اثناء الاطاحة بنظام صدام حسين في اذار 2003. من جهتها، ابدت لجنة حماية الصحفيين ومقرها نيويورك استياءها حيال التحقيق معتبرة انه يعاني من "ثغرات" و"لا يتمتع باي مصداقية". ودعت الى "تحقيق اكثر مصداقية". ونقل بيان للجنة عن احد مسؤوليها محمد عبد الدايم قوله "كنا نامل المزيد من تقرير حجمه 430 كلمة يطلق اتهامات غير اكيدة على الارجح". وفي السليمانية، قال الصحفي رحمن غريب منسق "مركز مترو" وهو منظمة مستقلة تعنى بالدفاع عن حريات الصحفيين ان "معطيات لجنة التحقيق اصابتنا بخبية امل كبيرة، فشخصية سردشت وامتداده السياسي والاجتماعي لا تشير الى ارتباطه بالجهات الارهابية". من جهته، قال كمال رؤوف رئيس تحرير صحيفة "هاولاتي" المستقلة ان "عدم وضوح ونشر ادلة كافية سيؤدي الى تأثيرات سلبية في مجال سيادة القانون في الاقليم، مما يعرقل التطور الديمقراطي وحرية الرأي". بدوره، قال بشتيوان جمال وهو صحفي كتب عدة مقالات عن القضية ان "سردشت ليس متطرفا بل هو علماني ليست له ميول اسلامية (…) اعتقد ان التحقيق مضلل ومخيب للآمال، ولا اساس له من الصحة لان سردشت من عائلة يسارية". اما نقابة الصحفيين في كردستان، فقد دعت الى عدم التدخل في الامر لان "التحقيق لم يكتمل، وليس من حقنا التدخل في قضية ما تزال في ذمة التحقيق". وقد كتب عثمان (23 عاما) مقالات انتقد فيها السلطات الكردية والمحسوبية والفساد الاداري. ومن ابرز كتاباته التي نشرها موقع "كردستان بوست" المعارض لسياسة الاحزاب الكردية مقال بعنوان "انا اعشق بنت مسعود البرزاني". وجاء في المقال "عندما اصبح صهرا للبرزاني سيكون شهر عسلنا في باريس، ونزور قصر عمنا لبضعة ايام في اميركا. سأنقل بيتي من حينا الفقير في اربيل الى مصيف (سري رش) حيث تحرسني ليلا كلاب اميركا البوليسية وحراس اسرائيليون". وفي مقاله الاخير، كشف عن تعرضه لتهديدات ابلغ عنها عميد الكلية. وكتب قائلا "في الايام القليلة الماضية قيل لي انه لم يبق لي في الحياة الا القليل، لكنني لا ابالي بالموت او التعذيب". وتابع "ادعو ان يكون موتا تراجيديا يليق بحياتي. اقول هذا حتى تعلموا كم يعاني شباب هذه البلاد فالموت هو ابسط خياراتهم وحتى تعلموا ان ما يخيفنا هو الاستمرار في الحياة وليس الموت”. من جانب آخر ذكر بيان لمجموعة صحفي بلا حدود في إقليم كردستان، أن نتائج التحقيقات في مقتل الطالب والصحفي سردشت عثمان "لا صحة لها"، داعية المجتمع الدولي الى التدخل لكشف الحقيقة. وقال البيان إن "النتائج التي اعلنت عنها المصادر الامنية في كردستان عن مقتل سردشت لا صحة لها لانه ليس إرهابيا ولم يكن نهائيا على صلة بمجاميع مسلحة". وعبرت المجموعة عن "قلقها لسكوت المجتمع الدولي"، داعية اياه "للتدخل وكشف الحقائق والعثور على القتلة". فيما قال سكرتير نقابة صحفيي كردستان إن نتائج التحقيقات الخاصة بمقتل الصحفي سردشت عثمان الذي اختطف قبل عدة أشهر وتم العثور على جثته بعد يومين في مدينة الموصل، صادرة عن المحكمة ولم تتدخل النقابة فيها. وأوضح حامد محمد أن "ما أُعلن من نتائج عن مقتل الصحفي سردشت عثمان صادرة عن المحكمة وليس لدى النقابة أي موقف رسمي تجاهها لأننا لا نتدخل في أعمال المحكمة". وكان الطالب والصحفي سردشت عثمان، 23 عاماً، قد اختطف من أمام كليته بمدينة أربيل (360 كم شمال بغداد) في 4 آيار/مايو الماضي، وتم العثور على جثته بعد يومين في مدينة الموصل، ما أدى الى خروج تظاهرات جماهيرية واسعة في مدن اقليم كردستان.</p> </p></div> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-11460"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/09/15/murdered-journalist-smeared/#respond" title="Comment on Murdered 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/peshmerga/" rel="tag">Peshmerga</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/press-freedom/" rel="tag">press freedom</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/sardasht-osman-murder-of/" rel="tag">Sardasht Osman - murder of</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/sardasht-osman-protests-over-murder/" rel="tag">Sardasht Osman - protests over murder</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/%d8%a3%d8%b3%d8%a7%d9%8a%d8%b4/" rel="tag">أسايش</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>I was wondering what smear would be used against Sardasht Osman to help explain away his murder after he wrote these words:</p> <blockquote><p>All my friends said Saro, let it go and give it up for otherwise you will get yourself killed. The family of Mulla Mustafa Barzani [Massoud Barzani's father] can kill anyone they want, and they surely will.</p> <p>I told them I did not commit blasphemy and I swear to the dagger of [Massoud's late brother] Mustafa Idris Barzani that my father had spent 3 nights with him on the same mountain [during the fight against Saddam] and so why not say those things? Massoud Barzani claimed himself that he is a president, www.ekurd.netand I would ask him how may time has he visited Erbil and Sulaimaniyah in the last 18 years?</p> <p>My problem is this man, Massoud Barzani, is so tribal that so arrogant that he does not recognize anybody from even the other side of Sari Rash. With a few clicks, I can out more about any leaders’ wives in the world but I have no idea who my mother-in-law would be and what she looks like.</p> <p>I have no idea who I should take with me to ask Massoud Barzani to give me his blessing to marry his daughter. From the beginning, I thought I should take with me few religious figures, some respectful old men and some old peshmerga, but one of my journalist friends told me that I should find some Saddam collaborators and those who participated in the Anfal operation [ethnic cleansing in the late 1980s] with Saddam because they are all around Massoud now and he likes them.</p> </blockquote> <p>You can read the rest of "<em>I am in love with Massoud Barzani’s daughter, a poem that kills</em>". By Sardasht Osman <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/05/13/i-am-in-love-with-massoud-barzanis-daughter-a-poem-that-kills-by-sardasht-osman/">at this posting</a>.</p> <p>Well now I know which smear is going to be used to shrug off Sardasht Osman’s murder. They are trying to make people believe that it was a punishment murder by Ansar al-Islam!</p> <p>I had not realised they would try something so crude. </p> <p>According to the committee of Barzani loyalists appointed by Barzani to investigate the murder of the journalism student who repeatedly exposed corruption, favouritism, and nepotism, in the KRG. The kidnapping was done by one Hesham Mahmoud Islamil acting on behalf of the terrorist group Ansar al-Islam. This is so unlikely as to be completely unbelievable. Here is part of how the independent news agency Aswat al-iraq have reported the claim:</p> <div style="border-right: lightgrey 1px solid; padding-right: 5px; border-top: lightgrey 1px solid; padding-left: 5px; float: right; padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 15px; border-left: lightgrey 1px solid; width: 306px; padding-top: 5px; border-bottom: lightgrey 1px solid"> <p><a title="Hesham_Mahmoud_Islamil_300x244 by Gorillas Guides, on Flickr" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://www.flickr.com/photos/27086036@N02/4993694971/" class="external" target="_blank"><img height="244" alt="Hesham_Mahmoud_Islamil_300x244" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627im_/http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4107/4993694971_269e11b8f2_o.jpg" width="300"/></a> </p> <p>Hesham Mahmoud Islamil is accused of being a member of Ansar al-Islam and of kidnapping Sardasht Osman for the terrorist group.</p> </p></div> <blockquote><p>“Asayesh forces arrested Hesham Mahmoud Islamil, a Kurd, from Baiji city, north of Tikrit, with the participation of security forces,” a source from the committee told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.</p> <p>He confessed to taking part in the assassination of Othman as he refused to cooperate with the group.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://en.aswataliraq.info/?p=136835" class="external" target="_blank">Ansar al-Islam group kills Sardasht Othman – committee : Aswat Al Iraq</a></p> <p>AFP give a few more details of his alleged connection to Ansar al-Islam.</p> <blockquote><p>"Sardasht Osman was killed by terrorists because he had promised to work with them and then decided not to," the committee said, without giving details on what work he had allegedly pledged to carry out.</p> <p>It said it had arrested the man who kidnapped Osman, 28-year-old Hisham Mahmud Ismail, saying he was a member of Ansar al-Islam. The committee said Ismail snatched Osman and then handed him over to other members of the armed group, who eventually killed him.</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://www.france24.com/en/20100915-kurdish-reporter-killed-islamic-militants-investigators" class="external" target="_blank">France24 – Kurdish reporter killed by Islamic militants: investigators</a></p> <div style="border-right: lightgrey 1px solid; padding-right: 5px; border-top: lightgrey 1px solid; padding-left: 5px; float: right; padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 15px; border-left: lightgrey 1px solid; width: 306px; padding-top: 5px; border-bottom: lightgrey 1px solid"> <p>Sardasht Osman (picture below) was the 23 years old student of English and Journalsim who wrote many scathing reports and satires about the corruption in the KRG which the Barzani and the Talabani clans run as their personal property.</p> <p><a title="sardasht_osman" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://www.flickr.com/photos/27086036@N02/4591951505/" class="external" target="_blank"><img style="display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto" height="325" alt="sardasht_osman" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627im_/http://static.flickr.com/4029/4591951505_1af41a2d5f.jpg" width="300" border="0"/></a></p> <p>He knew he was probably going to be killed and wrote letters and articles about the threats made to him and how his university and the police refused to do anything. He was kidnapped in broad daylight driven through many Peshmerga and Asayish checkpoints to Mosul where he was murdered.</p> <p>Abdus Samad</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/05/13/i-am-in-love-with-massoud-barzanis-daughter-a-poem-that-kills-by-sardasht-osman/">I am in love with Massoud Barzani’s daughter, a poem that kills. By Sardasht Osman | Gorilla’s Guides</a></p> </p></div> <p>How very convenient that they didn’t have to give details. So what have we so far?</p> <ol> <li>Sardasht Osman who was well known as a journalist and satirist had made himself unpopular with the Barzanis by writing extensively about the corrupt way in which they and the Talabanis run the KRG. </li> <li>Shortly before he was kidnapped and murdered he wrote a devastating poem which highlighted the corruption and pointed out that Barzani and his most senior henchmen actively cooperated with the Ba’athist genocide of the Kurds. </li> <li>He then wrote about how the (Barzani controlled) police and the (Barzani controlled) university authorities refused to do anything about the death threats he had received. </li> <li>He was as I wrote at the time (see sidebox) kidnapped in broad daylight driven through many Peshmerga and Asayish checkpoints to Mosul and then murdered. </li> <li>Barazani threatened to "cut off the black hands" of those who protested the murder (see: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/05/20/barzani-says-he-will-chop-off-the-black-hands-of-iraqi-kurds-protesting-murder-of-journalist/">Barzani says he will “chop off the black hands” of Iraqi Kurds protesting murder of journalist | Gorilla’s Guides</a>), and set up his investigation committee in an attempt to defuse intense criticism. </li> </ol> <p>Now this comittee of Barzani loyalists want us to believe the following:</p> <ol> <li>Despite the fact that eyewitness reports to the kidnapping say that it was carried out by a group of men who forced Sardasht into a white Hyundai van that only one person, Hesham Mahmoud Islamil, has been arrested and confessed. </li> <li>That a group of Ansar al-Islam fighters managed to come down from their mountain hideouts close to the Iranian border to Arbril where they have never had a presence. </li> <li>That this group kidnapped Sardsht Osman and then drove him through multiple Peshmerga and Asayish checkpoints to Mosul (where they have been wiped out). </li> <li>Once they had him in Mosul they tortured and then shot him leaving his handcuffed and mutilated body in a part of Mosul controlled by the Peshmerga. </li> <li>That they did this because he refused to perform (unspecified) work for them. </li> </ol> <p>Sardasht Osman knew very well that Barzani hates to be reminded of the time when he was loyal to Saddam. He knew that Barzani hates to be reminded that many of his most senior henchmen actively took part in Saddam’s genocidal <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4877364.stm" class="external" target="_blank">Anfal</a> campaign. (See also: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Anfal_Campaign" class="external" target="_blank">Al-Anfal Campaign – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a>). He knew that he was a marked man and that he was going to be killed.</p> <p>I cannot think of anyone less likely to be approached by Ansar al-Islam than Sardasht. I do not believe one word of this ridiculous cover story that the Parastin have come up with.</p> <p>Abdus Samad</p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-11066"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/06/15/iraq-the-most-dangerous-place-on-earth-for-journalists/#respond" title="Comment on Iraq: the most dangerous place on earth for journalists">No Comments</a></span> Posted on June 15th, 2010 by Nur Hussein Ghazali</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/06/15/iraq-the-most-dangerous-place-on-earth-for-journalists/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Iraq: the most dangerous place on earth for journalists">Iraq: the most dangerous place on earth for journalists</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/category/english-articles/" title="View all posts in English Language Articles" rel="category tag">English Language Articles</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/category/human-rights/" title="View all posts in Human Rights" rel="category tag">Human Rights</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/baghdad/" rel="tag">Baghdad</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/committee-to-protect-journalists/" rel="tag">committee to protect journalists</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/corruption/" rel="tag">Corruption</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/elections/" rel="tag">Elections</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/freedom-observatory/" rel="tag">Freedom observatory</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/hawlati/" rel="tag">Hawlati</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/invasion/" rel="tag">invasion</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/journalism/" rel="tag">journalism</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/journalistic-freedom/" rel="tag">journalistic freedom</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/journalists-attacked/" rel="tag">Journalists Attacked</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/kidnappings/" rel="tag">Kidnappings</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/kurdish-regional-government/" rel="tag">kurdish regional government</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/kurdistan/" rel="tag">Kurdistan</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/middle-east/" rel="tag">Middle East</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/mosul/" rel="tag">Mosul</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/newspaper/" rel="tag">newspaper</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/patriotic-union-of-kurdistan/" rel="tag">patriotic union of kurdistan</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/press/" rel="tag">Press</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/prime-ministers-office/" rel="tag">Prime Minister's Office</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/sardasht-osman/" rel="tag">Sardasht Osman</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p><strong>Since 2003, persecuted reporters facing new threats to freedom of expression </strong></p> <p>Hot-headed and buoyed by youthful defiance, Sardasht Osman ignored the death threat texts on his phone and his family’s pleas to tone down his articles criticising the Kurdish regional government. In a piece entitled "Farewell", he said he was prepared to meet his killers. "I fear neither death nor torture," he wrote. "Whatever happens, I will not leave this city, and I will wait for my own death." It was his last article. </p> <p>The 23-year-old was heading into the University of Salahaddin in Erbil when he was grabbed by two men in a crowded area full of armed guards and bundled into a car, his books left strewn in the street. Two days later, his battered body was found 50 miles away in Mosul outside the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) headquarters. He had two bullet wounds through the mouth, a symbolic punishment for someone who has spoken out. </p> <p>Across Kurdistan tomorrow, protests will mark the 40th day, a traditional mourning interval, since Mr Osman’s body was found. The murder – the third in two years – has sent a shock wave through the journalistic community, said Kamal Rauf, the editor-in-chief of the region’s largest independent paper, Hawlati. "Three of my reporters have resigned. They say they are not scared but their families are," he said. It has also led to an unprecedented surge of protest, with journalists, students, academics and civil rights campaigners marching under the banner "We Will Not Be Silenced". </p> <p>Ever since the US-led invasion of 2003, Iraq has been the most dangerous country in the world to be a journalist. The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) says that 89 have been murdered and a further 50 have died in crossfire or other acts of war. Some 117 of the dead journalists, were Iraqi. The CPJ says that Iraq holds the world record for journalists murdered with impunity; nobody has ever been prosecuted for any of the killings. </p> <p>But, some argue, the threat to freedom of expression in Iraq is changing. Fewer journalists are dying today than a few years ago but journalism itself is beginning to expire under relentless official pressure. The government sees media which criticise it as the propaganda organs for opposition parties or foreign countries. </p> <p>"The real danger to journalism is not killings and kidnappings but the clampdown by the authorities," says Ziad al-Ajili, the head of Journalistic Freedom Observatory, a Baghdad-based media rights organisation. </p> <p>The JFO, whose office is protected by heavy metal doors, methodically records and protests against the assaults, harassment and detention of reporters by the security forces as well as raids on media outlets and their closure. Its last annual report lists 262 different types of attacks, almost all of them by the state security forces. </p> <p>Mr Ajili says this growing persecution is effective: "The Iraqi media no longer dare to expose scandals. It was the foreign media which exposed the secret government prison at the old al-Muthanna airport in Baghdad where prisoners were being tortured. Iraqi journalists would not have dared." </p> <p>Under Saddam Hussein, the media was tightly controlled by the Ministry of Information, though attacks on corruption were sometimes allowed. Terrified journalists were summoned to meet Uday, Saddam’s eldest son, for praise or imprisonment depending on his mood. Yet officials paid attention to what appeared in the media. Mr Ajili says that today the government’s priority is to eliminate all coverage of "mismanagement and corruption". </p> <p>It is not only television stations and newspapers that are targeted. In February, security and military forces raided three publishing houses in Baghdad and confiscated a 16-page booklet, Where Has Iraq’s Money Gone? covering financial and administrative corruption. They arrested six staff and reporters were prevented from entering the publishers for several days. </p> <p>Restrictions on the media are increasing. Reporters are meant to obtain a permit to cover any violent incident. Even when permission is granted, local security forces often beat or arrest reporters, or smash their equipment. The purpose of this is to downplay the level of violence which, while much lower than three years ago, is higher than in most of the rest of the world. </p> <p>Regulation and control of the media is in the hands of the National Communications and Media Commission. This has unlimited power to close broadcasters and newspapers, confiscate equipment, withdraw licenses and impose fines. Just before the March elections, the commission declared that all journalists must have permits and must pledge "not to incite sectarianism". This might include something as simple as publishing the number of victims of a bombing, figures which the government tries to minimise. </p> <p>While new threats are weighing on journalists, the old dangers have not gone away. Yasin al-Fadhawi in Anbar, west of Baghdad, found a bomb the size of a football outside the door of his home last summer, two days after his magazine published an article about allegedly corrupt dealings between the government and tribal chiefs. He fled his home and went into hiding. Along with 43 other journalists in Anbar who consider themselves under threat, Mr al-Fadhawi wanted a gun to protect himself but could nor get a permit. </p> <p>Imad al-Ebad, an investigative journalist at a television station in Baghdad, had just got out of his car to meet a contact when he was shot four times in the head. Astonishingly, Mr Ebadi survived. He had just enough strength to get back into his car before he passed out for 10 minutes. His would-be murderer must have thought he was dead, but Mr Emadi revived and drove, bleeding profusely, across Baghdad to his television station. "As I passed through army and police checkpoints they saw I was hit but they did nothing," he says. </p> <p>His colleagues took him to hospital in Baghdad where he stayed for 10 days before spending two months recuperating in a hospital in Germany. He fingers the scars on his neck where one bullet hit him and bows his head to show where hair is beginning to cover his other wounds. He does not know exactly who attacked him or why, but he assumes it was in retaliation for his investigation of government corruption. "As well as my television work, I was writing articles on corruption and scandals in the Prime Minister’s office," he says. "I had received threatening phone calls and text messages saying: "You are nothing. We will kill you." </p> <p><b>Extract from Sardasht Osman’s ‘Farewell’</b></p> <p>"In the last few days I was told for the first time that there isn’t much left of your life. To put it in their own words I have no permission to breathe in this city but I fear neither death nor torture. I am waiting for … my killers. I pray that they grant me a tragic death which deserves my tragic life…. I want them to understand that what scares us is not death but the continuation of such days for our next generation…. The tragedy is the authorities don’t care about the death of the generations…. Whatever happens I will not leave this city, and I will wait for my own death. I know this is the first bell ring for my death but at the end it will become a ring bell for the youth in my society" </p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iraq-the-most-dangerous-place-on-earth-for-journalists-1999729.html" class="external" target="_blank">Iraq: the most dangerous place on earth for journalists – Middle East, World – The Independent</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-10860"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/06/01/%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%83%d9%8a-%d9%8a%d8%af%d8%b9%d9%88-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%89-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a7%d8%a8%d8%aa%d8%b9%d8%a7%d8%af-%d8%b9%d9%86-%d9%84%d8%b9%d8%a8%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%ad/#respond" title="Comment on المالكي يدعو الى الابتعاد عن لعبة المحاور وبارزاني يؤكد ترشيح طالباني لولاية جديدة">No Comments</a></span> Posted on June 1st, 2010 by 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كلمته خلال انعقاد المؤتمر الثالث للاتحاد في السليمانية أملنا ان تسهم زيارتكم لكردستان العراق وتشريفكم مؤتمرنا على تشجيع الشركات والاستثمارات في العراق وتعزيز العلاقات الاقتصادية والتجارية والثقافية بين بلادكم وعراقنا الديمقراطي الاتحادي المستقل و الموحد. <br/>من جانبه دعا رئيس الوزراء نوري المالكي إلى مراجعة واقعية ونقدية للعملية السياسية والتجربة  الديمقراطية على اساس الدستور واحترام المكونات بما يعزز قوة الدولة وتماسكها،مبينا ان اضعاف او تهميش او اقصاء اي مكون ليس في مصلحة اي طرف، وأن قوة الدولة تعد رصيدا لجميع العراقيين، فليس من حق احد أن يضع خطا احمرعلى اي عراقي ايا كان انتماؤه الديني او القومي او المذهبي. <br/>كما دعا الشركاء في الوطن والعملية السياسية إلى الكف عن لغة التهديد والابتعاد عن الدخول في لعبة المحاورالاقليمية، لأن مثل هذه السياسة لم تجلب للعراق وشعبه خلال العهد الدكتاتوري سوى مزيد من الحروب والدمار والازمات، وأن اللجوء الى الحوار واعتماد الخيارات الدستورية في حل الخلافات هو الطريق الوحيد لبناء عراق حر مستقل ديمقراطي ومزدهر. <br/>من جانبه دعا رئيس اقليم كردستان مسعود بارزاني الكتل السياسية إلى الاحتكام بالدستور الدائم للبلد في تشكيل الحكومة المقبلة، مبينا أن جلال طالباني هو مرشح الكرد لرئاسة الجمهورية لولاية ثانية. <br/>وقال بارزاني إن البلد شهد بعد عملية الانتخابات التشريعية بعض الاشكالات حول تشكيل الحكومة ورئاسة الوزراء، ويهمنا أن يتم اختيار رئيس للوزراء، لكن يجب الاحتكام بالدستور في تشكيل الحكومة، ونحن مع تشكيل حكومة شراكة وطنية. <br/>وأكد بارزاني أن الكرد في اقليم كردستان لن يكونوا جزءا من المشاكل الدائرة حول تشكيل الحكومة، ونحاول التقريب بين المكونات الاخرى، موقفنا واضح ونحن ضد تهميش اي مكون عراقي، ونحن شركاء فعليون منذ تأسيس العراق الفيدرالي الموحد الحر، مجددا دعوته إلى تطبيق المادة 140 وفقا الدستور. <br/>وحضر المؤتمر رئيس الجمهورية جلال طالباني ورئيس الوزراء نوري المالكي ورئيس الإقليم مسعود بارزاني ورئيس حكومة الاقليم برهم صالح ونائب رئيس الجمهورية عادل عبد المهدي ونائب رئيس الوزراء رافع العيساوي وزعيم المجلس الاسلامي الاعلى السيد عمار الحكيم ، وشخصيات برلمانية من بغداد.</p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-10789"> 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margin: 5px 15px 5px 0px" height="271" alt="sardasht_osman" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120102190627im_/http://static.flickr.com/4029/4591951505_1af41a2d5f.jpg" width="250" align="left" border="0"/></a> <p>كشفت لجنة التحقيق، التي شكلها مسعود برزاني للتحقيق في مقتل الطالب والصحافي الكردي سردشت عثمان قبل ثلاثة أسابيع، عن النتائج الأولية لتحقيقاتها الجارية على عدة مستويات لكشف المتورطين في الحادث المذكور. </p> <p>وأشارت اللجنة في تقرير إلى «أنه في يوم 4/5/2010 تقدم المدعي عثمان حسن والد الطالب سردشت بشكوى لدى مركز شرطة آزادي بمدينة أربيل، ذكر فيها أنه في الساعة 8.20 من صباح ذلك اليوم خطف ولده سردشت الطالب في المرحلة الرابعة بكلية اللغات – قسم اللغة الإنجليزية من أمام معهد الفنون الجميلة الواقع مقابل كلية الآداب أثناء توجهه إلى دوامه بالكلية، وعلى إثر ذلك بدأ ضابط التحقيق في المركز بالتحقيقات الأصولية. وبعد العثور على جثة الطالب المذكور من قبل أحد مراكز الشرطة في الموصل، ونقلها من قبل ذويه إلى أربيل في 6/5/2010 أمر قاضي التحقيق بتوسيع نطاق التحقيقات الجارية بمشاركة مديرية الآسايش (الأمن) في أربيل. وبناء على أمر (رئاسي)  تم تشكيل لجنة تحقيق خاصة بمشاركة مديريتي الآسايش وشرطة أربيل لمتابعة القضية. وبحسب إفادات شهود الحادث، تبين لنا أن هذه الجريمة ارتكبت من قبل ثلاثة أشخاص مجهولي الهوية، استخدموا لتنفيذ جريمتهم سيارة من نوع (ميني باص) لونها أبيض لا تحمل أي أرقام دلالة، وكان الجناة يرتدون الملابس المدنية، ولم يلاحظ حملهم أي نوع من الأسلحة، وخطفوا الطالب وساقوه إلى جهة مجهولة». </p> <p>وتشير اللجنة إلى «أنه حسب مسار التحقيقات، فإن جثة الطالب المذكور قد تم العثور عليها في حدود الساعة السادسة من مساء يوم 5/5/2010 بحي المزارع بمدينة الموصل قرب شارع دوميز من قبل مركز شرطة الأحرار، وتم إجراء التحقيقات الأولية حول الجثة ونظمت لها استمارة الكشف الطبي، وأحيلت الجثة إلى معهد الطب العدلي الذي أكدت تحقيقاته أن المجني عليه تلقى رصاصة واحدة من مسدس على جبهته واستقرت خلف عنقه، ولم يلاحظ وجود أي آثار للتعذيب على جسد المجني عليه قبل قتله». </p> <p>وتستطرد اللجنة أنه «عند الشروع في التحقيقات الأولية تبين أن عنصرا واحدا من البيشمركة التابعين لقوة (زيرفان) كان موجودا أمام معهد الفنون الجميلة الذي تم خطف الطالب من أمامه، وتم توقيف هذا العنصر وفقا للمادة 341 من قانون العقوبات العراقي لتقصيره في أداء واجباته، وهو الآن قيد التوقيف بعد إحالة أوراقه إلى قاضي التحقيق». وقالت اللجنة «إن اللجنة التحقيقية تعمل حاليا على عدة محاور التي تثير الشكوك بهدف الوصول إلى حقيقة الأمر، وهناك بعض المعلومات بهذا الشأن، وأن اللجنة ستستمر في جهودها لكشف الجناة بالتعاون مع قاضي التحقيق والمدعي العام، وأن اللجنة ستعمل من خلال الإمكانيات التكنولوجية المعاصرة بالاستفادة من الاتصالات التلفونية التي أجريت مع المجني عليه، وندعو جميع من لديهم معلومات أدلوا بها سابقا إلى وسائل الإعلام المحلية إلى التعاون معنا وتزويدنا بالمعلومات المتوفرة لديهم مع ضمان التكتم على أسمائهم والمعلومات التي يدلون بها، ونتعهد بالكشف عن كل المعلومات التي تتوفر لدى اللجنة في مراحل التحقيق القادمة». </p> <p>في غضون ذلك، أكد مدير «الآسايش» (الأمن المحلي) في أربيل عبد الله علي «أن الكشف عن معلومات اللجنة التحقيقية كان بهدف طمأنة الشعب إلى أن التحقيقات مستمرة ومتواصلة بشكل يومي، وأن هناك معلومات جديدة توافرت لدينا قد تقربنا من 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