The Kurdistan Journalists Syndicate - Syria issues a statement on the anniversary of its founding

ARK News… The Kurdistan Journalists Syndicate - Syria issued a statement on the tenth anniversary of its founding, stressing that the PYD administration “views with adversary and hostility every journalist who does not intersect with its ideas,” and there are still Kurdish journalists in its basements and prisons.

The following is the text of the Union’s statement:

On this day, ten years ago, Kurdish journalists, male and female, decided to establish the Kurdistan Journalists Syndicate-Syria. At that time, more than one hundred and sixteen male and female colleagues from within the country (Syrian Kurdistan) and from colleagues in the Kurdistan Region, as well as from Europe were attended.

The conference was held in Erbil, the capital of Kurdistan, on September 19, 2013, and was sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and Youth in the Kurdistan Regional Government, and under the slogan “For a Free Press.”

Today marks ten years since our founding conference, and every year we hope for more activity within our country, to closely monitor the violations that occur against our female and male colleagues, but the laws of the Autonomous Administration continue to hinder the work of journalists, and it believes that anyone who distances himself from the circle of supporting its policies is exposed to various penalties and harassment.

After ten years, the press and journalists in Syria are suffering from extremely bad and difficult conditions, and Syria is at the bottom of countries that respect the press.

Despite the revival of press platforms and their abundance in the areas of Syrian Kurdistan under the control of the Autonomous Administration, the administration’s authorities hinder the work of journalists, and look with the eye of adversary and hostility to every journalist who does not intersect with their ideas, and there are still Kurdish journalists in the basements and prisons of the Autonomous Administration, including more than a month ago the journalist Barzan Liani.

In other areas of Syrian Kurdistan, which are under the control of the Syrian opposition, such as Afrin and its countryside, Serê kaniyê, and Girê Spi, journalists, especially the Kurds, suffer real suffering in reporting reality, and are deprived of the most basic rights to reveal the facts and document violations against civilians.

On the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Kurdistan Journalists Syndicate-Syria, we pay tribute to the spirit of the late head of the Kurdistan Journalists Syndicate-Syria, Jwan Mirani, who passed away at the height of his media career.

Happy new year to the Kurdish male and female journalists.
Kurdistan Journalists Syndicate Council - Syria
19-9-2023

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