Badinan Detainees Report

Pertaining to the events of January-March 2019

Abstract

In January 2019 a series of demonstrations took place in the Badinan region of Iraqi Kurdistan.

The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) security forces arrested 113 people in relation to the demonstrations held in Shiladze and Duhok (within the Badinan region). Eighty-two of these people were released within 24 hours.

This Badinan Detainees' Report documents the arrest, imprisonment and release of the people who were detained for more than 6 days.