Published on 3 July 2005
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
Maha Ibrahim, editor in chief of Baghdad TV, was killed on 3 July 2005, probably by US military gunfire.
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.
