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Nueva acusación contra el periodista Sherwan Sherwani encarcelado en Kurdistán del Sur kaosenlared.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from kaosenlared.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Published date: 22 February 2021 17:00 UTC | Last update: 1 month 1 week ago The sentencing of two Iraqi Kurdish journalists and three activists, with one saying he was threatened into giving a false confession, days after the Kurdish prime minister accused them of being spies, has raised questions about the independence of the region s judiciary. On 16 February, journalists Sherwan Amin Sherwani and Guhdar Zebari, together with activists Shvan Saeed, Ayaz Karam and Hariwan Issa, were found guilty by Erbil s Second Court of First Instance of endangering the national security of the Kurdistan Region and were each sentenced to six years in prison. A week prior to the ruling, Masrour Barzani, prime minister of the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), claimed in a press conference that the detainees were neither activists nor journalists. Some of them were spies. They spied for other countries… Some were sabo ....