Freedom of Press in the Iraqi Constitutions 1925-1968

	Freedom of Press in the Iraqi Constitutions 1925-1968
AL-Mostansiriyah journal for arab and international studies
Article 1, Volume 0, Issue 43, 2016, Pages 282-313
Abstract
The freedom of the press, as one of the criteria for the freedom of opinion and expression, enjoyed a huge global attention through international conventions and declarations on human rights, which were issued, and which emphasized the need to include this right in the international constitutions which guarantee practicing and defending it. In Iraq, the interim constitutions, which were issued in the years of 1925, 1958, 1964, and 1968, included provisions that guarantee the freedom of opinions and expression, but it had conditioned that the practice of this freedom must be under laws which they organized. Hence the significance of the research comes out, a research which highlights the freedom of the press through the Iraqi constitutions, and which reveals the extent to which the Iraqi constitutions texts are compatible to the international standards of the human rights specialized in the freedom of press? And whether the laws of publications, which were issued under the constitutions, guaranteed this freedom or they were limiting it? In order to answer the two questions above, the researcher has adopted the descriptive approach to analyse the texts of the constitutions and laws. The research was divided into three sections: the freedom of the press in international conventions, the second section: the freedom of the press in the Iraqi constitutions (1921 - 1958) The third section has dealt with: the freedom of the press (1958 - 1968).
Keywords
freedom of the press; criteria for the freedom; opinion and expression

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