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Iraq: Attack against women's rights organisation, Asuda

Front Line is deeply concerned following a gun attack against women's rights organisation, Asuda, on 11 May 2008. Founded in 2000, Asuda is a non-governmental organisation based in Sulaymaniyah that provides protection for women victims of domestic violence.  Read More

Iraq: Attack and subsequent death of human rights defender and journalist Shihab Al-Timimi

Front Line is deeply concerned following the attack on and subsequent death of human rights defender and journalist Shihab Al-Timimi, aged seventy-five years old. Shihab Al-Timimi was the head of the Iraqi Journalists' Union as well as a renowned campaigner for the right to freedom of expression in Iraq.  Read More

Front Line mourns the death of Iraqi journalist Sahar Al-Haidari

Front Line is greatly saddened to learn about the murder of the Iraqi journalist, Sahar Al-Haidari in her home town of Mosul on 7 June 2007. She was the mother of three children and worked as a news reporter for Iraq Voices, a news agency based in Mosul, the National Iraq News Agency - Nina and the Institute for War and Peace Reporting. Sahar Al-Haidari is the third journalist to be killed in Iraq in the last two weeks. Read more on Article 19 website

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