Calls to reconsider sentence against Kurdish journalist

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: The Iraqi association for defending journalists’ rights called for reconsidering the verdict against the editor-in-chief of Kurdish newspaper, underlining that the sentence is against protecting journalists’ law in Kurdistan . “The association demands the Sulaimaniya Criminal Court, which sentenced Shawan Dawoodi to one month behind bar for publishing a report criticizing the court’s performance, to release him,” Ibrahim al-Siraji, the head of the association, told IraqiNews.com. “The sentence is against protecting journalists’ law, approved by the Kurdish parliament,” he noted. SH (P) 1