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Kurdistan Regional Government Representative to the United States to discuss ISIS, refugee crisis at Lipscomb University April 5 (Lipscomb University)

Edit Public Technologies 31 Mar 2016
(Source. Lipscomb University) ... The briefing features Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman, Kurdistan Regional Government Representative to the United States. The briefing will take place in Lipscomb's Stowe Hall, located in the Swang Business Center ... She began her career on local newspapers in London and won the Observer Newspaper's Farzad Bazoft Memorial Prize in 1993, which led her to work at the Observer and later at the Financial Times ... (noodl....

Iraq profile - timeline

Edit BBC News 11 Aug 2015
A chronology of key events.. 1534 - 1918 - Region is part of the Ottoman Empire. Iraq timeline - the short version. 1534-1918 - Ottoman rule. 1917 - Britain seizes control, creates state of Iraq. 1932 - Independence, followed by coups. 1979 - Saddam Hussein becomes president ... 1980 ... 1990 March - Farzad Bazoft, an Iranian-born journalist with London's Observer newspaper, accused of spying on a military installation, is hanged in Baghdad ... 1991 ... ....

Today in History

Edit The Miami Herald 15 Mar 2015
Today is Sunday, March 15, the 74th day of 2015. There are 291 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History.. On March 15, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson, addressing a joint session of Congress, called for new legislation to guarantee every American's right to vote — the result was passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. On this date. ... In 1990, Iraq executed London-based journalist Farzad Bazoft, whom it had accused of spying ... ....

Iraq profile

Edit BBC News 20 Jan 2015
A chronology of key events.. 1534 - 1918 - Region is part of the Ottoman Empire. Continue reading the main story Iraq timeline - the short version. 1534-1918 - Ottoman rule. 1917 - Britain seizes control, creates state of Iraq. 1932 - Independence, followed by coups ... Iran-Iraq war ... 1990 March - Farzad Bazoft, an Iranian-born journalist with London's Observer newspaper, accused of spying on a military installation, is hanged in Baghdad....

My friend Farzad Bazoft was executed on Saddam’s orders

Edit BBC News 02 Jul 2014
2 July 2014 Last updated at 00.18 BST. In September 1989, British journalist Farzad Bazoft, was arrested after trying to discover the truth about a large explosion in Iraq. He was arrested along with fellow Briton Daphne Parish and accused of spying. Six months later, despite international pleas for clemency, Bazoft was executed by the Iraqi authorities on the orders of Saddam Hussein ... Share this story About sharing ... Most watched ... ....

Reporters just as expendable in the West as in Middle East

Edit Belfast Telegraph 26 Jun 2014
As if the risk of being killed is not enough, must journalists endure the threat of imprisonment as well ... Just as rape is a vile tool of war, so jail must be a routine method of shutting us up ... Occasionally, like poor Farzad Bazoft of The Observer in 1990, they are accused of being spies and hanged – in this case on the orders of Saddam Hussein – and we rage about it for a while and then bash on with our work regardless ... Comments (0). ....

Robert Fisk on the jailing of Al-Jazeera journalists: A proxy in the war between Qatar ...

Edit The Independent 23 Jun 2014
As if the risk of being killed is not enough ... Just as rape is a vile tool of war, so jail must be a routine method of shutting us up. And in an awful sense, our Western leaders go along with this ... Occasionally, like poor Farzad Bazoft of The Observer in 1990, they are accused of being spies and hanged – in this case on the orders of Saddam Hussein – and we rage about it for a while and then bash on with our work regardless ... In pictures ... ....
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