Sulaimani’s street cleaners keep working as pay raise stalls
Earlier this year, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) set a minimum monthly wage of 450,000 Iraqi dinars, or about $305, for cleaning workers based on an eight-hour workday.
The network allegedly lured foreign nationals to Iraq with promises of employment before holding them captive and torturing them. The suspects allegedly documented the abuse and sent the footage to victims’ families while demanding large sums of money for their release, according to the INIS.
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The circumstances under which the Jangi brothers and their aides were arrested, which saw security forces in Sulaimani mount a dramatic, psuedo-military operation, have already raised questions from rights groups.
Earlier this year, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) set a minimum monthly wage of 450,000 Iraqi dinars, or about $305, for cleaning workers based on an eight-hour workday.
“The US Government's financial support to the Kurdistan Regional Government for the unification of the Peshmerga forces was always intended to be temporary. It was intended to help the Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs integrate and unify the different units, and if the US Government is now ending the payment of stipends to those forces, that is almost certainly because it judges the unification effort to be complete,” Ambassador Joey Hood, the former US Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, told The New Region.
Rondak Faris, head of the KRG’s Ministry of Interior's Leadership and Management Academy, said at the workshop that so far they developed a local training concept and strengthened the skills of local trainers, leading to the successful training of more than 10,000 police officers.
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Mohammed A. Salih
Mohammed A. Salih
Mohammed A. Salih
Ali al-Mamouri