The Story of Kurdish Journalist Sherwan Sherwani Who Fought for Freedom

Sherwan Amin Sherwani was born in 1983, in Akre, a city located in the Duhok Governorate. He successfully completed his education after retuning back to Iraq from Iran, where his family had migrated. He holds a bachelor’s degree in management and economics. Shwerani embarked on his journal career in 2008, working as reporter for Awena Newspaper, he has also contributed to other independent media publications such as Livin magazine and Hawlaty Newspaper. He became Editor-in-Chief of the “Washan” magazine in 2009 and published 6 Issues of it. He had faced arrest so many times because of his Carrer in journalism. The first time he got arrested was because Nihad Barzani the brother of Masoud Barzani had made a complaint against him. Shwerani and a group of his friends published a magazine founded in 2011 and named “Bashur” Sherwani was the owner and Editor-in-Chief and the magazine registered by Kurdistan Journalists Syndicate under trust umber 475, Bashur magazine was published in both Sorani and Badini dialect in Sulamany and Zakho ,and it was one of its kind, revolutionary for rising political awareness in the KDP’s area. Because of the safety and security situation it was kind of impossible to publish such content that openly criticized and pointed at the KDP’s leader corruption in the region. Shwerani and his staff faced many threats, arrests, complaints due to the impact of the magazine in the area, Shwerani was arrested in April,20,2012. Despite the KDP leader’s effort to prevent publishing, the magazine stayed in publishing until 2014. The magazine has been an integral part of the developments and growth of many writers and journalists. Sherwani and several activists from Badinan established “Fshar” group in 2012 and “Yakhi” group in 2016 they have been actively involved in many civile activities and protests in the area. In the 2013 Sherwani participated with 15 Iraqi journalist in the training course in Jourden and rewarded a certificate.