UN slams Iraqi Kurds for intimidating journalists
By AFP - May 13,2021 - Last updated at May 13,2021
Iraqi protesters burn tyres in front of the Karbala governorate headquarters in the central city of Karbala, early on Sunday, following the reported assassination of a local anti-government activist (AFP photo)
BAGHDAD The UN on Wednesday accused authorities in Iraq s autonomous Kurdish region of intimidating and arbitrarily detaining journalists and activists. Over the last year, journalists, human rights activists and protesters who questioned or criticised actions by the Kurdistan regional authorities have faced intimidation, threats, and harassment as well as arbitrary arrest and detention, the world body said.
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May 4, 2021 by archyde
The court upheld on appeal the six-year prison sentence for five journalists and activists. Human rights defenders are worried.
Erbil is the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan.
AFP
The Court of Cassation of Iraqi Kurdistan on Tuesday confirmed the six-year prison sentence of five journalists and activists, aggravating the concern of human rights defenders who denounce “unfair” trials and turn of the screw of the authorities in this autonomous region.
Aso Hashem, lawyer for the five men, told AFP that “three of the five judges of the Court of Cassation upheld the judgment” handed down on February 16 by a court in Erbil, capital of the region held by the Democratic Party. from Kurdistan, from the clan of Kurdish Prime Minister Masrour Barzani.