Kurdes : émeutes à سلێمانی Sulaimaniyah – 1 avril 2011

35 hurt in clashes at north Iraq protest rally

AFP

02 04 2011

SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq — Thirty-five people, most of them policemen, were injured on Friday in clashes during protests against the two main Kurdish parties in Sulaimaniyah in northern Iraq, hospital sources said.

Some 4,000 people gathered in Tahrir Square in the centre of the town, some 270 kilometres (173 miles) north of Baghdad, after Friday Muslim prayers.

Witnesses told AFP some people in the crowd began throwing stones at police, who responded with batons.

An official at the emergency room at Sulaimaniyah hospital said 35 people were hurt, and that nearly all were policemen.

The injured included at least one protester and a journalist working for a media outlet linked to Iraqi President Jalal Talabani’s Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), witnesses and security sources said. Read more…

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Sulaymaniyah (Kurdish: سلێمانی / Silêmanî); is a city in Iraq, Iraqi Kurdistan. It is the capital of Sulaymaniyah Governorate. Sulaymaniyah is surrounded by the Azmar Range, Goizja Range and the Qaiwan Range in the north east, Baranan Mountain in the south and the Tasluje Hills in the west.