FJA Shortlist 2022

Category: Outstanding Investigative Reporting

Title of the article: Christian Real Estate in Iraq... Organized Appropriation by Forgery and Force of Arms

Author: Asaad Al-Zalzalee (Iraq)

The original publication is available via the following link:

https://arij.net/investigations/Christian-real-estate-Iraq/

December 18, 2021

ARIJ

There has been much talk about ISIS’s expropriation of the lands and properties of religious minorities in Mosul and in some Iraqi provinces; however, the violations that started in 2003 are ongoing today and are not perpetrated by just one entity, as this investigation reveals. Read more