Developing
the communication devices in the Kurdish community has created an opportunity
for all to send their messages easily, using any media devices like (journals,
magazines, radio, TV, social media and wireless instruments) to deal, connect
and exchange the messages.
There
is a significant responsibility as respecting those human rights that are
accepted by the objective laws in Kurdistan Region. Neglecting and interference with the freedom
of speech be a published crime as well.
In the
article (19) of the Human Declaration of Rights from (1948) and section (2),
article (19) of Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966) express the
freedom of opinion through any media as global and basic rights of human
beings.
Any
country has its measure for democracy following its governing system; the best
way to evaluate the democracy of that country is freedom of saying not slogans
of power. Similarly, the Kurdistan Region has its law for media; it implements
the freedom of expression in some fields while spreading several topics accepts
as a crime. The journalists and media organizations should be known their
boundaries to avoid crime.
The
publishing crimes are printing and broadcasting a topic or a picture, it
accepts as a public offense because the topic is a reason for making a crime.
Also, such a crime is an infringement of the individual and communal rights as
a result of abusing the opinion of speech.
In
general, the principals broadcasting crimes are:
First,
material principle, if any picture or topic has been distributed and breaks the
rules call the material principle of crime. Any topic that hasn’t been broadcasted
doesn’t take responsibility because and not belongs to the material principle
of crime.
Second,
moral principle Focuses on the mental and psychological sides of crime which
means it depends on the extent of knowledge and his/her rationale are an
essential base for appointing the category of the crime, however, unknowing is
not an approvable justification for making a crime.
Third,
legal principle concentrates on the law, no actions accept as a crime without
law confirmation, for example, publishing a photo becomes a crime when violates
a legal article or section.
Fourth, Principal of publishing, the
journalists become criminal when a topic broadcasts on the media while sometimes
the journalists have been hacked on the social media via the internet hackers,
hence, the exact way is don’t save worthless photos or videos on your mobile
and laptop because it is the only way to protect yourself from the hackers.