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OCHA/Charlotte Cans. People pray in Erbil, the capital and most populated city in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Baghdad - Asharq Al-Awsat
Freedom of expression in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq has been increasingly curtailed over the past year, according to a UN report issued Wednesday.
The report documents a concerning pattern, observed from March 2020 to April 2021.
“The pattern of repression documented in this report is deeply worrying, it read.
The report came a week after an appeals court upheld six-year jail sentences for five journalists and activists.
It said 33 journalists, activists, or human rights defenders had been arrested without being told why, denied access to lawyers or held without their families being informed.
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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.
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