Published on 23 February 2006
9 March 2010 - Legislative elections become nightmare for independent and opposition journalists
1 March 2010 - Abducted reporter freed on payment of ransom
26 February 2010 - Democracy and free expression under threat in Iraqi Kurdistan
At least 77 journalists and media assistants have been kidnapped in Iraq since March 2003. Twenty-three of them have been murdered, 40 have been released and 13 are still being held by their abductors.
