ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – An attack against Rangin Shero, a Rudaw Media Network journalist, by the Rojava security forces has sparked outrage among local and international organizations and figures who described this act as an outright violation against the freedom of press by the authorities in Rojava.

The International Peace and Charity Organization in the Kurdistan Region strongly condemned the attacking and beating Shero by Rojava security forces, describing this action on a pregnant woman as a human rights violation.

“Our organization condemns this violation of human rights and we deem this action to be a black spot which will negatively affect the reputation of Kurdistan in the eyes of the world,” read the statement, noting that Rojava “is in a particular situation and for the time being they have to show a beautiful image of governance and freedom of press in Rojava to the region and the world.”It also read that “no religion, legal governance or a modern party should ever allow itself to attack a pregnant woman.”

Meanwhile, Kurdish metro organization also issued a condemnation statement on Shero’s assault.

The organization said the attack on Shero was "barbaric."

“It is an attack on those who want to cover events in the region,” Soran Omer, head of the Human Rights Committee in the Kurdistan Parliament, told Rudaw“It was an attack on two people as the journalist was pregnant,” Omer added.On Thursday the 22 September 2016 Shero was prevented by the Rojava Asayish security forces from visiting her parents and her relatives in Dugrga village, near the town of Grke Lage, in Hasakah province.

Shero crossed the Pishxapur-Simalka border crossing from the Kurdistan Region in Iraq to Rojava solely in order to visit her family, not for any journalistic work. The border officials, from Rojava’s Cizre Canton, finished her paperwork and she was picked up by her father.

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However, as she reached the bus station she was summoned by the Asayish (security forces) from the Cizre Canton, they told her that she should not visit the Western Kurdistan and told her to go back to Southern Kurdistan. Meanwhile, the security forces used abusive language against her and Rudaw’s work.As Rengin Shero told them that she did not want to go back to Southern Kurdistan, since she followed the correct procedures to cross the border to visit her family, a male Asayish and a number of female Asayish members from the Cizre Canton attacked her. They tore her clothes and were very violent with her, even though they knew she was pregnant.“For God’s sake, and for the sake of the Prophet please don’t do this to my daughter, don’t stop her,” Shero’s father was heard saying while crying and asking the officials to stop. But the officials told him “we do not know God or the Prophet”.They then sent Shero back to the Kurdistan Region via boat.