NEWS CENTER- In the cyberattack that targeted our agency on the evening of Saturday, June 6, many published materials in our Persian, Arabic, and English sections were deleted, and our broadcast was temporarily disrupted as a result of targeting our technical infrastructure.

Despite the perpetrator continuing to issue threats, we reaffirm that any attempt to strike at women’s voices, silence the truth, our undermine free journalism will not succeed; we will continue our work and our publication no matter how much the threats escalate.

A cyber team identifying itself as “Hindala and the Axis of Resistance” Or “Handhala” affiliated with Iran, issued statements containing threats directed at Kurds, Kurdish institutions, and our agency. Those statements contained explicit hate speech, along with direct threats targeting journalistic work and its practitioners.

As a result of the attack targeting our agency, many published news items in our Persian, Arabic, and English sections were deleted, and our technical infrastructure was targeted, forcing us to temporarily suspend our media activity. After intensive efforts by our technical team, our platforms were reopened and our materials became available again.

After claiming responsibility for the attack, the responsible team continued to publish messages claiming that cyberattacks against our agency would continue, and also claimed to have information about the locations of our institution, repeating its threats. Alongside statements targeting the Kurdish people and their institutions, the statements also included threatening discourse linked to political and military developments in the region.

We do not consider this attack merely a targeting of a website or technical infrastructure. This assault is a political step targeting women's voices, the struggle for truth, and independent journalism. It is no coincidence that our agency, which works to expose what women are subjected to across the Middle East and to give voice to women suffering from war, violence, inequality, and male‑dominated policies, is targeted.

NûJINHA operates as a news agency that adopts an independent, democratic, and free journalistic approach guided by a women's perspective. Our editorial line is based on placing women's experiences, struggles, and facts at the center, amplifying voices excluded by dominant discourses, and bearing witness to women's struggle for freedom.

For us, journalistic work is not limited to transmitting news; it is also an insistence on pursuing the truth and making the voices of women living under war, repression, and inequality heard and seen.

From this standpoint, we consider that any assault targeting our agency is not just an attack on a media institution; it is an assault on women's freedom of expression, their right to access information, and on the values of a democratic society.

Also troubling is that some media institutions, instead of condemning this attack or considering it a threat to press freedom, have published the perpetrator's statements without any verification, presenting the attack as if it were a success story or a special operation. Reproducing the attacker's language in reporting an attack on a media outlet contributes to reproducing the attackers' discourse and expanding the circle of incitement and targeting.

The mission of journalism is not to legitimize threats, but to reveal the truth. Adopting the discourse of the attackers instead of showing solidarity in the face of attacks on media institutions directly harms press freedom and journalistic ethics.

We affirm again at NûJINHA that we will not abandon our responsibility to make women's truth visible. We will continue our work despite all forms of attacks, threats, and pressures aimed at silencing, marginalizing, or subjugating women.

We will not bow to threats, and we will remain the free voice of women.