US EditionKurdistan Region of Iraq: New Sentence for Journalist Weeks Before Planned Release Is Evidence of Perverse Practice Used to Punish Critics
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Kurdistan Region of Iraq: New sentence for journalist weeks before planned release is evidence of perverse practice used to punish critics
In response to an Erbil court sentencing journalist Sherwan Sherwani to another four years and five months in prison on 19 August for an apparent threat made to a prison officer, Amnesty International’s Iraq Researcher Razaw Salihy said: “Sherwan Sherwani is already serving an unjust prison term after being previously convicted on spurious charges. He should have long since been released. Instead, he is being handed a new years-long prison sen…
Days before he was supposed to be released five years after his arrest, today (Tuesday), a well-known anti-corruption journalist in Kurdistan, Iraq, was sentenced to four years and five more months in prison for his conviction for threatening a prison officer. Kurdish lawyers and activists reported that skirmishes had broken out in and outside the courtroom in Erbil between the security forces and the relatives and supporters of Sherwan Shirwani…
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