Activists, journalists face arrest and ‘flawed’ trials in Iraqi Kurdistan ...Middle East

SULAIMANIYAH: One night last October in Iraq’s far north, police dragged Shivan Saed from his bed and beat him in front of his family before taking him away, his brother told AFP.Saed, 36, is one of a growing number of activists and journalists in northern Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region subject to arbitrary arrest and unfair trials, detainees’ relatives and human rights groups say.In February, Saed and four others were sentenced to six years in prison for “inciting protests and destabilising” Kurdistan — three oil-rich Iraqi provinces controlled by the Barzani clan in Arbil and Dohuk, and the Talabanis in Sulaimaniyah.Saed, fellow activist Harwian Issa and journalists Ayaz Karam, Kohidar

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