Calls to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists

HRCI is monitoring the media situation and prepares regularly reports on violence against journalists. HRCI has also organized a conference and a workshop that have resulted in the formulation of a strategy in accordance with national law that sets up a process of receiving complaints, investigating them and passing along the results of the investigation to the Prosecutor General and the Media Commission.

This strategy was developed by several stakeholders in addition to civil society organizations and activists. IJS has negotiated with the High Judiciary Council and the Ministry of Interior to reinvestigate all the cases of killing journalists.

The three organizations and other partners will observe the Day with a dialogue event on “Fostering the prosecution of crimes against journalists in Iraq” that will be held on 12 November 2015 in Baghdad.

The main goal of the event is to raise awareness on the issue of impunity of attacks against journalists. Participants from the legislature, the executive, the judiciary and the media will discuss on how to move forward with combating impunity. It is expected that they will formulate a set of concrete commitments to more effectively persecute crimes against journalists.