Rights: calls for the opening of clear investigation by burning a car of a civilian activist revealed corruption files in Diwaniyah
25/05/2019 04:05
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The Rights Center for Freedomof Expression Support, the governor of Diwaniyah, Sami al-Hasnawi personally, as head of Security Committee in the province, is responsible for the safety of public opinion leaders, journalists, activists and bloggers, because they are constantly threatened Due to the publication of files related to the corruption of government departments, the center strongly condemns the killing of civilian activist Rida al-Shaibani on Thursday night, Friday, from burning his car in front of his house in Sadr City.
Rights Center warns of the widening threat of activists lives and journalists working in Diwaniyah after targeting Reda al-Shaibani, and Information about groups threatening activists and journalists through social networking sites and mobile phones threatens them with physical liquidation if they continue to publish corruption files from government departments in the province.
The Rights Center calls on the Ministry of Interior and Diwaniyah police to open a clear and effective investigation into the incident of activist Rida al-Shaibani and to reveal the circumstances of the case urgently to the public opinion and the parties behind them, and not to cover the case as the previous assault on Sheibanik, And that the case cannot be solved, such as the previous assault on Sheibani, which has exceeded the period of investigation for more than a year and the perpetrators were not known.
In this regard, The Rights Center undertakes to provide a team of lawyers to the lawsuit filed by activist Reda al-Shibani to the judicial authorities to reveal the targets of activists and those behind them.
Activist Rida al-Shaibani told Rights Center that at 1250 hours on Friday, May 24, 2019, an explosion was heard near his house and when he left the house, he was surprised by the intense fire in his car, and he thought that the burning was the result of spraying gasoline on the car and setting fire to the fuel tank.