On February 10th, 2025, the team of Metro Center received Yann Braem, Consul General of France in Erbil.

We had an important discussion about the journalistic working environment and freedom of expression in the light of the investigation of the Network 19 and Metro Center, which focused on the violence against protesting teachers and journalists who covered the action on the Degala side.

Some of these investigations have been published in Kurdish and Arabic on the websites of Metro Center and Network