CPJ, partners urge Iraqi Kurdistan to free journalist Sherwan Sherwani - Committee to Protect Journalists

CPJ, partners urge Iraqi Kurdistan to free journalist Sherwan Sherwani - Committee to Protect Journalists

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), along with 17 press freedom, human rights organizations and media outlets, is urging the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq to immediately and unconditionally release journalist Sherwan Sherwani, who remains unjustly imprisoned for his independent reporting and has been subjected to systematic judicial harassment. On August 20, 2025, the Erbil Criminal Court sentenced Sherwani to an additional four …