Forty Islamic Association Party Held for Four Years Without Trial
Hawlati is an independent Kurdish newspaper issued weekly.
Forty Islamic Association Party Held for Four Years Without Trial
Hawlati is an independent Kurdish newspaper issued weekly.
The head of the Islamic Association Party, Ali Bapeer, is asking the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and Kurdistan Democratic Party to try 40 members of his party who have been imprisoned without trial for four years. (Iraqi Kurdistan has had semi-autonomy over its region since 1991.) Thirty are being held in KDP-controlled jails, while the other ten are being in PUK-controlled detention facilities. Bapeer said the conditions for the prisoners were not good and they had been tortured. He said one party member held in the KDP-controlled jail was tried and found innocent by the judge but has not been released.
