Reporters Without Borders
has urged the UN in Iraq and the Austrian
president to intervene on behalf of cyberdissident
Kamal Sayid Qadir
Reporters Without Borders wrote on 3 March to the UN
Human Rights mission in Iraq, and to Austrian
president Heinz Fischer, urging them to make contact
with the authorities in Iraqi Kurdistan to secure
the release of jurist Kamal Sayid Qadir, who has
been imprisoned since 26 October 2005.
Letter sent to the UN Human Rights mission in Iraq :
"Reporters Without Borders, an international
organisation that defends press freedom, urges you
to intervene with the Kurdish authorities to seek
the release of Kamal Sayid Qadir, an Austrian jurist
of Kurdish origin, who was sentenced to 30 year in
prison on 19 December 2005 for “defamation of public
institutions”. |
Dr Kamal Said Qadir, Austrian citizen, an
international legal expert, writer and human rights
activist |
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