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The journalist was given a Presidential pardonA doctor sentenced to six months by a Kurdish judge for writing an medical article about sodomy has been pardoned and released.AdelHussein was convicted under the 1969 penal code of offending "public customs" with his article in newspaper Hawlati and sentenced on November 24th in the city of Arbil, the capital of Kurdish-controlled Iraq.Massoud...
(Baghdad) A freelance journalist imprisoned in northern Iraq for writing about homosexuality has been pardoned and released, an international media watchdog group said Thursday. The journalist, AdelHussein, was pardoned Sunday by Massoud Barzani, the president of the self-ruled Kurdish region, the Committee to Protect Journalists said. Hussein was convicted of violating ...
BAGHDAD – An international media watchdog says a freelance journalist imprisoned in northern Iraq for writing about homosexuality has been pardoned and released. AdelHussein was convicted of violating a public decency law by writing an articl
A doctor and freelance journalist imprisoned in northern Iraq for writing about homosexuality has been pardoned and released.AdelHussein was sentenced in November to six months in prison and a fine of about $100 on a charge of violating "public custom."He was released from a prison in Irbil, about 350 km north of Baghdad, after receiving a pardon from Massoud Barzani, president of the...
BAGHDAD An international media watchdog says a freelance journalist imprisoned in northern Iraq for writing about homosexuality has been pardoned and released.
AdelHussein was convicted of violating a public decency law by writing an article about sodomy and health in April 2007 in the independent weekly Hawlati. He was sentenced on Nov. 24 to six months in prison.
BAGHDAD—An international media watchdog says a freelance journalist imprisoned in northern Iraq for writing about homosexuality has been pardoned and released.AdelHussein was convicted of violating a public decency law by writing an article about sodomy and health in April 2007 in the independent weekly Hawlati. He was sentenced on Nov. 24 to six months in prison.The Committee to Protect...
A leading press freedom organization has called for the release from prison of a doctor sentenced to six months by a Kurdish judge for writing an medical article about sodomy. AdelHussein was convicted of offending public decency with his article in newspaper Hawlati and sentenced on November 24th in the city of Arbil, the capital [...]
There is another outrage emerging from the Iraqi legal system this week, targeting a journalist AdelHussein. Hussien has been sentenced to six months for writing a story on homosexuality and the physical effects of homosexual sex. He was convicted of violating public decency in Sulaimaniyah, Iraq. His lawyer is arguing that the sentence [...]
AdelHussein, a freelance journalist in northern Iraq, has been put in prison for violating a public decency law by writing a story about “the physical effects of homosexual sex”. He is to spend six months behind bars. The public...
Iraq is of course a beacon of democracy and happiness these days where children smile all day long and the women do nothing but attend seminars to discuss the writings of Germaine Greer. Sadly all is not well in this garden paradise though. AdelHussein, a journalist in northern Iraq, has just been fined and sentanced to six months in jail for "violating public decency" by writing about...
(Sulaimaniyah, Iraq) International media watchdog groups called Wednesday for the release of a freelance journalist jailed in northern Iraq for violating a public decency law by writing a story about homosexuality. AdelHussein was sentenced Nov. 24 to six months in jail by a court in Irbil, capital of the Kurdish-ruled ...
Committee to Protect Journalists and Reporters without Borders, two groups committed to the freedom of journalists abroad, have called on the Iraqi government to free AdelHussein, who was found guilty of violating "public custom" for publishing an article about...
SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq International media watchdog groups called Wednesday for the release of a freelance journalist jailed in northern Iraq for violating a public decency law by writing a story about homosexuality. AdelHussein was sentenced Nov. 24
Baghdad - An international journalists' organization condemned on Wednesday the imprisonment of a Kurdish doctor who wrote an article about homosexuality, Reporters without Borders said in a report on its website. Doctor AdelHussein was sentenced to...
SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq – International media watchdog groups called Wednesday for the release of a freelance journalist jailed in northern Iraq for violating a public decency law by writing a story about homosexuality. AdelHussein was sentenced Nov. 24 to six months in jail by a court in Irbil, capital of the Kurdish-ruled region of northern Iraq, according to the Committee To Protect Journalists...
