11/11/2009
Reporters Without Borders today called for police to do their utmost to find those responsible for a “cowardly” physical attack on leading Iraqi Kurdish investigative journalist Nabaz Goran, who has just left Erbil, capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, to seek refugee in Sulaymaniyah to the east.
The 32-year-old editor of the independent Kurdish-language bi-monthly Jehan (World) (http://www.jehan-press.com/) was set upon by unknown assailants and brutally battered about the face and head as he was leaving his office in the Iskan district of the Erbil, on 29 October.
“I had just come out of the office, when three men unknown to me approached me and asked me if I was Nabaz Goran. I replied that I was and they then attacked me. One of them was armed with a blunt metal object which he used to hit me on the head and face while the two others rained punches on me. They did not stop insulting my mother and my sisters”, he told Reporters Without Borders, speaking with difficulty because of pain from his injuries (see photos).
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Brutal assault on a journalist in Kurdistan, newspapers facing legal action
- Reporters Without Borders
