(Draw Media Organization) published a new book (State of Press Freedom in Kurdistan Region, 2008 - 2022) in (Kurdish, Arabic, English) with statistics, data and graphics about the situation of journalism.

Journalism in the Kurdistan Region is one of the most difficult professions, due to the difficulty of accessing accurate information and data in the institutions of the Kurdistan Region. besides journalists in the Kurdistan Region are often subjected to violations of rights and they get arrested and convicted outside the journalism law No. 35 of 2007.

Violations against journalists in the Kurdistan Region will be the focus of this report. Here we highlight the reports of the (Kurdistan Journalists Syndicate and Metro Center), which are two institutions in the Kurdistan Region that defend the rights of journalists and publish their annual reports on the violations committed against journalists in the Kurdistan Region.

According to the data of Metro Center, 3,468 violations against journalists were recorded during the period of 2011- 2022.

However, according to the statistics and reports of the Kurdistan Journalists Syndicate during (2008 - 2022), That is, within 15 years, (1,289) violations were recorded against journalists.

These high figures of violations in the Kurdistan Region have often attracted the attention of international organizations such as Reporters Without Borders, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Amnesty International, the United Nations, the European Union and often foreign consulates.

On the following pages we will explain the annual statistics of both institutions with graphs and tables, from 2008 to the end of 2022.

Here is the link of the Book