Mohammed Rasool () is an Iraqi-Kurdish journalist who was held in a maximum security prison from 27 August 2015 to 5 January 2016. He was released on bail.
Rasool was initially detained for his reporting on
Kurdistan Workers Party
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(PKK) with ''
Vice
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'' journalists
Jake Hanrahan and
Philip Pendlebury, but they were released on 3 September.
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Living people
Iraqi journalists
Iraqi Kurdish people
Kurdish journalists
Year of birth missing (living people)
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