Baghdad – INA
On Friday, First Deputy Speaker of Parliament Hassan Al-Kaabi called on the regional authorities to release the staff of Al-Iraqiya and Kurdi TV, while noting that the arrests and the violence policy in the region are illegal and in violation of the constitution.
A statement by the Media Office of the First Deputy Speaker of Parliament received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA) said, "Al-Kaabi called on the Kurdish authorities to release the staff of the Iraqi Kurdish channel (Amin Ahmed and Sirwan Barzan) who were arrested for covering the demonstrations in Sulaymaniyah province."
According to the statement, Al-Kaabi stressed that "the arrests and the policy of violence pursued by the regional government are illegal and in violation of the constitution, human rights laws and freedom of expression," noting that "the demonstrators and media workers in Kurdistan were not the cause of the existing corruption and the failure to solve the oil problems that are more than years old."