08.2007 - Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees

Kurdish security forces and arbitrary arrests, torture of political opponents, treatment of critical journalists ("UNHCR's Eligibility Guidelines for Assessing the International Protection Needs of Iraqi Asylum-seekers") [ID 22912]

"The Kurdish parties and their armed forces are considered responsible for arbitrary arrests, incommunicado detention and torture of political opponents (e.g. perceived) Islamists and members of ethnic/religious minorities in their areas of jurisdiction in the three Northern Governorates and in areas under their de facto control further south, in particular the Governorates of Kirkuk and Ninewa. There are also concerns over the treatment of journalists perceived as critical of the authorities."

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