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Hakeem Dawd Qaradaghi is an Iraqi Kurdish journalist and researcher. He has an MA in international journalism from the University of Salford, UK. He has worked for several major media outlets in the last 12 years in the Iraqi Kurdish Region such as NRT, Rudaw and KNN. He has written extensively for Iraqi media in English and Kurdish.
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Sentences spark outrage across the Kurdish region where press freedom has been in precipitous decline for some time.
The continuing crackdown on press freedom in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq is threatening its democratic future.
![The journalists were found guilty on Tuesday by an Erbil criminal court of jeopardising Kurdish national security [File: Anatolia via AP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/kurdistan.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
![Iraqi Kurds lift placards during a demonstration at the the Freedom Park in the center of Sulaimaniyah in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, on August 12, 2020 [File: Shwan Mohammed/AFP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/000_1WG6VW.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
