The judiciary in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region sentenced imprisoned Kurdish journalist Sherwan Amin Sherwani to an additional four years in jail on charges of alleged forgery. Local journalists, rights groups, and the Kurdish political parties condemned the sentence. Sherwani, a critic of the ruling clans in the semi-autonomous region of northern Iraq, was sentenced in February 2021 to six years behind bars for "endangering national security,". Refink Yassin, a lawyer defending Sherwani, told The New Arab that the court unjustly sentenced his defendant as per Articles 295 and 298 from Iraq's penal code related to forgery. Yassin clarified that Sherwani's charge was base
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