Nuri Kino, (born February 25, 1965, in Tur Abdin), is a Swedish-Assyrian award-winning investigative journalist, documentary filmmaker, author and human rights expert.

[1] He is the author of several nonfiction books, and hundreds of stories and reports from the Middle East, western and eastern Europe as well as Africa over the past two decades.

He has won awards for his reporting on human-rights issues, and is the founder of human rights organization A Demand For Action (ADFA)[2] which advocates for persecuted minorities in Iraq, Syria, Turkey and elsewhere in the Middle East.

Nuri Kino is the eldest of four children of an Assyrian family that originates from the village of Kfar-Shomac, south of the City of Midyat, in a region known as Tur Abdin.

He was interviewed by international news agencies and wrote a widely cited report on the collapse of buildings that had been known to be weak; this was the real start of his career as a journalist.

Nuri Kino was the first journalist to interview Irena Sendler, a Polish nurse who risked her life to smuggle 2,500 Jewish children out of the ghettos of Warsaw during World War II.

[9][10] From this position, in his home town of Södertälje, Sweden, he has developed a global network of human rights experts and activists who serve as a deep resource on persecuted minorities in the Middle East, frequently sought out by national politicians, multinational organizations, the European Parliament and the United States Congress.

With Yawsef Beth Turo, Kino made Det ohörda ropet ("The Cry Unheard," 2001), about the killing of Assyrians in Turkey during World War I.

In 2008 with Jenny Nordberg he published Välgörarna - Den motvillige journalisten[19] (Benefactors - The Reluctant Journalist), a suspense novel whose main character he has said is based on himself;[12] it has been translated into Finnish, German, and Norwegian.