Iraqi Kurdish journalist murdered

Submitted by martin on 19 May, 2010 - 3:51

A young journalist, Sardasht Osman, was kidnapped on 4 May 2010. Two days later his body was found near to the headquarters in Mosul, Iraq, of the PUK, one of the two parties which run Iraqi Kurdistan in coalition.

Sardasht was a correspondent for several websites and electronic newspapers.

Amnesty International has urged the authorities in Kurdistan “to set up an investigation line on this crime and bring the murderers to justice”. The New York Times has reported one of Osman’s friends as accusing the KDP security forces in Arbil.

Hundreds of journalists, university students, intellectuals and NGO activists joined a protest in Sulaimaniyah on 12 May.

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