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Iran criticizes Germany for releasing
Kurdish PJAK leader
9.3.2010
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PJAK-leader
freed in Germany
March
9, 2010
BERLIN/TEHRAN, — The
leader of the Party for free life in Kurdistan (PJAK)
was freed on Monday by the German police.
Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin
Mehman-Parast criticized Germany on Tuesday for
releasing the leader of the "terrorist" Party of
Free Life of Kurdistan ( PJAK), local satellite
Press TV reported.
Abdul Rahman Haji Ahmadi was
arrested at his apartment by security
forces in Germany on Friday,www.ekurd.netbut
was released on Monday, Press TV cited a report
posted on a website affiliated to the party as
saying.
Mehman-Parast accused Western countries of not being
sincere in fighting terrorism, the report said.
Mehman-Parast said that evidence at hand indicated
that "Europe has been a safe haven for terrorists"
and continues "to support terrorism despite chanting
slogans in defense of human rights," according to
Press TV.
Iran's Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani on Monday
urged Germany to hand over the
captured leader of the outlawed PJAK, the semi-
official ISNA news agency reported.
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Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin
Mehman-Parast
Abdul Rahman Haji Ahmadi, leader of the
Iranian Party for a Free Life of Kurdistan, or PJAK
has been released in Germany |
German security forces
arrested the ringleader, Abdul Rahman Haji Ahmadi,
and two senior members of PJAK in Germany, local
Fars news agency reported on Sunday.
Iran's western provinces have been the hotbed of
regular armed clashes between Iranian security
forces and Kurdish militant parties, in particular
separatist PJAK, an anti-Iranian Iraq-based Kurdish
group linked to Turkey's outlawed Kurdish Workers'
Party.
The PJAK, or the (Partiya Jiyana Azad a Kurdistane) (Party of Free Life of
Kurdistan), is a militant Kurdish nationalist group based in northern Iraq that
has been carrying out attacks Iranian revolutionary guards in the Kurdistan Province of Iran
(Eastern Kurdistan) and other Kurdish-inhabited areas.
Since
2004 the PJAK took up arms for self-rule in Kurdistan province northwestern of
Iran (Iranian Kurdistan, Eastern Kurdistan). Half the members of PJAK
are women. The PJAK has about 3,000 armed
militiamen.
The United States on February 4, 2009 added the Iranian Kurdish PJAK militant group
opposed to Iran
to its list of terrorist
organizations.
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