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 Kurdistan Regional Government released the Kurdish writer Dr.Kamal Karim

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Kurdistan Regional Government released the Kurdish writer Dr.Kamal Karim 3.4.2006





BAGHDAD, Kurdistan region 'Iraq', -- The prime minister of northern Iraq's Kurdistan government pardoned a journalist just a week after he received an 18-month sentence for articles accusing one of the region's top leaders of corruption, a government spokesman said.

Dr.Kamal Karim, an Iraqi-born dual Austrian national, was arrested in October for the articles on a Kurdish Web site criticizing Massoud Barzani of the Kurdish Democratic Party. His sentence was handed down March 26.

The prime minister issued the pardon under pressure from local and international groups, said the regional spokesman, Mohammed Khoshna.

This act "proves that the government maintains and supports democracy in this region," Khoshna said. 

Dr Kamal Said Qadir, Austrian citizen, an international legal expert, writer and human rights activist

The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists was among those who condemned the sentence and demanded the writer's immediate release.

"It's an outrage and sad reflection of press freedom in Iraqi Kurdistan that Kamel Karim is imprisoned for expressing his opinion," Ann Cooper, the committee's executive director, said in a statement last week.

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