Metro: The rules should be the basis of the treatment of the government with press freedom, information and thought.

Sulaymaniyah, May 3rd 2024: on world press Freedom Day Metro Center asks Kurdistan Regional Government to assess its own behavior, make the laws of journalism, right to access information and organizing demonstration principals in dealing with freedom of media, information and opinions. 

UNESCO this year with "a press for the planet: journalism in the face of the environmental crisis” slogan celebrated world press Freedom Day, stresses on the role media has in dissemination of information and delivering it professionally, with the purpose of spreading awareness among individuals. However, also shows the challenges in facing misinformation, hate speech and exposing secrets.

On this day, where the world pays respect to its journalists and media workers and assess the conditions of press freedom in their countries, Metro Center thinks that it’s important that the KRG relying on the reports of the local and international organizations assess its own performance and function and take needed measures to expand the freedoms and make journalism law, right to access information and law of organizing demonstration a principle in behaving with freedom of media, information and freedom of opinions.

While the KRG celebrates this day with the world, having independent media and paving the ground for not making it without pressure, threats, and obstacles are very important.

Unfortunately, despite the many attempts and civil pressures inside and outside till now, Kurdistan region and Iraq have an environment for doers of violence against media workers and journalists to escape, like how law can’t reach murderers.

(Soran Mama Hama, Sardasht Osman, Kawa Garmiani, Mamosta Abdulstar, Arkan Sharif, Widat Hussain) are living proof of those victims, that the doers or planners of those crimes, known or unknown, walk freely among us.

Honor for the journalist martyrs of Kurdistan