Shingal´s Protection Force HPS has issued a press release about Haydar Shesho´s arrest. The statement reads as follows:

“Since yesterday evening we have no knowledge of the HPS commander´s current whereabout and no possibility to contact him. The arrest of our unit´s Supreme Commander has political reasons. It is being tried to undermine our will, by putting one of our most prominent leader under pressure and breaking his will.”

[…] “Haydar Shesho´s arrest is not only directed at the person Shesho but at the Ezidi resistance as a whole.”

In addition, the HPS calls for the release of all imprisoned Ezidi demonstrators and activists that have been arrested in recent weeks by security forces of the ruling KDP.

Shesho´s closest relatives have been meanwhile informed of Shesho´s whereabout according to information EzidiPress has received. His whereabout is being kept secret for safety reasons. Haydar Shesho was arrested yesterday evening in his home in Khanke, Duhok province by Kurdish security forces close to the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP).

The HPS commander Dawud Jindi called on the Kurdish government to release the Supreme Commander within the next 24 hours.

ezidiPress