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PUK leader arrested in Iraqi Kurdistan on
charges of killing Kurdish journalist Kawa Germyani
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Mahmoud Sangawi (C), a Peshmerga commander of the
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK). Sanqawi had
threatened anti-corruption Kurdish journalist Kawa
Garmiyani (Small photo right) by telephone. Photo:
Archive/UKS •
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January
7, 2014
SULÊMANÎ,
Kurdistan region 'Iraq',— The main suspect
in the killing of the Kurdish journalist Kawa
Germyani arrested in
Sulêmanî, local news reported.
A source in Sulaimaniyah in Kurdistan Region said on
Tuesday, that a leader in the Patriotic Union of
Kurdistan (PUK), Mahmoud Sangawi was arrested
Tuesday night in Kalar on charges of killing
anti-corruption Kurdish
journalist Kawa Germyani
who was killed on
On December 5, 2013,
outside his home in Kalar district by
unidentified gunmen.
“Sangawi and after coming to the investigation
courthouse, the judge decided to arrest him after
two hours of interrogation,” local news reported.
“Sangawi has told the judge on the basis of being a
major military rank and demanded to return to the
Ministry of Peshmerga to be arrested there, but the
judge rejected the request and decided to arrest him
until the completion of the investigation in the
case”. the source added.
Kawa Germyani published an article about the leader
in Patriotic Union of Kurdistan party PUK, Mahmoud Sangawi,www.Ekurd.net
in July 2012,
later on Germyani received a threatening
phone call
from Sangawi, which been recorded and distributed by
Kawa. Kawa
also had filed a complaint in the court against the
PUK's Sangawi who had threatened him.
The family of the journalist Kawa Germyani has filed
a complaint to the court against Sangawi based on
the threats directed to Germyani recorded in his
mobile phone a few days before his assassination.
Kawa Ahmed Germyani, a Kurdish journalist investigating
corruption in Kurdistan region, was the editor-in-chief of Rayal
magazine and a correspondent for Awene newspaper, he was
shot dead by
unidentified gunmen on December 5, in Kalar town, in Sulaimaniyah
province. He was shot in front of his house, and
later died at the hospital.
Hundreds of people protested in Erbil and Sulemani
city last Sunday against the assassination of Kawa Germyani
and other journalists killed in Kurdistan region.
The demonstrators call on the Kurdish government to
bring the perpetrators and murderers to justice.
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