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Reuters has an in-depth story today on the increasingly dangerous reporting environment in Iraqi Kurdistan. Part of the problem, the article reports a local editor as saying, is that "the government thinks that journalists are the opposition." Killings, threats, and attacks against journalists are on the rise, with about 60 occurrences reported to CPJ in…https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cpj-logo.png24001260