A conflict between a Kurdish civil rights activist and US citizen, and the powerful Kurdish Barzani family, can’t be resolved in a Virginia district court.
Shnyar Anwar Hassan is married to a former member of Iraq’s parliament who has expressed criticism of the Barzani family in articles written by American journalist Zack Kopplin. The couple have shared Kopplin’s investigative work on Twitter and Facebook.
The office of Masrour Barzani, prime minister of Iraqi Kurdistan, allegedly wrote that Hassan had an adulterous affair with Kopplin, reportedly endangering her life. An unnamed Kurdish-American woman allegedly met with Hassan in Fairfax County to ...
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