Hundreds demonstrate in support of jailed Kurdish journalist ...Middle East

SULAIMANIYAH: Hundreds of people protested in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region yesterday in support of a jailed journalist hit with a new sentence before he was due to be freed.Sherwan Sherwani is the former editor of the monthly Bashur, known for its investigations into corruption.He was arrested in 2020 and jailed the following year for “espionage” and “incitement to protest and destabilise the region”.He had been due for release in September following a presidential decree reducing his sentence, according to the Committee for the Protection of Journalists (CPJ).But on Thursday, the CPJ said, Sherwani was given a four-year prison term for “falsification” in connection with a petition pre

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