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RSF: Concern about Kurdish journalist
missing in Iraqi Kurdistan
20.6.2012 |
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June 20, 2012
PARIS, — Reporters Without Borders is very
concerned about
Mawloud Afand, the editor of the magazine
Kurd-Israel, who has been
missing for the past 11 days in
Iraq’s northern Kurdistan region. According to his
family and various media sources, he set off from
Erbil on 9 June with aim of going to Sulaimaniyah
and has not been seen since.
“We fear the worst and we urge the autonomous
Kurdistan Regional Government’s authorities to do
everything possible to find
Mawloud Afand,” Reporters Without Borders said. “And
we therefore call for an immediate investigation
into this journalist’s disappearance.”
Armand, who is of Iranian origin, has been living in
Iraqi Kurdistan for several years. Kurd-Israel is
published by the Kurd-Israel Association,www.ekurd.net
which promotes better relations between Israelis and
Kurds and encourages Kurdish Jews who emigrated to
Israel to return to Kurdistan.
Its aims and activities are controversial and
constitute a major source of discord between the
Kurdistan Regional Government and Iran. The Islamic
Republic of Iran and the Iranian pro-government
media accuse the Kurdish authorities of facilitating
the “activities of the Zionist enemy’s agents,” the
Israeli intelligence services.
Just five days ago, the Iranian intelligence
minister announced the arrests of several
“mercenaries” and “participants” in the targeted
murders of Iranian nuclear research scientists. At
the same time, the minister also said that “part of
Iranian intelligence activities is being carried out
in neighbouring countries.”
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