Kurdish rights activist kidnapped in Iraq (women's rights activist)

[Barrett808]

KIRKUK, Iraq - A Kurdish woman human rights activist has been kidnapped by armed men in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, an official from the Kurdistan Democratic Party said Monday.

“Kurdish official and human rights activist Shiman Ahmad Kader was kidnapped by unknown men in a northern district of Kirkuk (on Sunday),” said Najat Hassan Karim.

“We don’t know where she is, but we accuse the enemies of Iraq and the Kurds, those who want to foment sectarian divisions, of being behind the abduction.”

Kirkuk, an oil hub some 255 kilometres (165 miles) north of Baghdad, is an ethnic hotspot with its population of Kurds, Arabs and Turkmen.

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