NEWS CENTER - CPJ made an urgent demand to the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances for the situation of journalist Süleyman Ahmet, who is detained by the KDP and has not been heard from for 190 days.

 

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and the Mina Committee submitted an urgent demadn to the United Nations (UN) Committee on Enforced Disappearances to determine the situation of journalist Süleyman Ahmet, who is detained by the KDP.

 

In the statement on CPJ's official website, it was stated that on April 12, an urgent demand was sent to the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances, with the coordination of the Mina Committee for the Protection of Human Rights, demanding that the situation of journalist Ahmet be revealed. In the statement, it was reminded that journalist Ahmet was arrested while returning to the Kurdistan Region after visiting his family in Syria, and that the authorities have not disclosed his location and on what charge, "if any", he was arrested since then.

 

Although his family and lawyers repeatedly applied to get information about journalist Ahmet's situation and to meet him, KDP did not allow this.

 

WHAT HAPPENED?

 

Rojnews' Arabic Service Editor Süleyman Ahmet is detained by KDP forces at the Pêşxabûr (Sêmalka) Border Gate while returning to the Federated Kurdistan Region on October 25 from Aleppo city of Rojava, where he went to visit his family on October 1. Since that day, there has been no news from (190) Ahmet.