Al-Kaabi calls on the Kurdish authorities to release Al-Iraqiya TV staff immediately

The First Deputy Speaker Mr. Hassan Karim al-Kaabi urged on  Friday, December 11 ,   the Kurdish authorities to release the staff of Al-Iraqiya Al-Kurdi TV (Amin Ahmed )and (Sirwan Barzan) immediately.

He pointed out that the media personnel were arrested by the forces in the region because of covering the protests in Sulaymaniyah today

 

Al-Kaabi criticized the policy of violence and arrests pursued by the regional government while stressing that it was illegal and a violation of the constitution and all human rights laws and freedom of expression.

His Excellency said: “The protesters and the media in the Kurdistan region are not the cause of the existing corruption and the failure to solve the oil problems that are many years old”.

The First Deputy Speaker Media Office

11/12/2020