Kurdish journalists in Iraq criticized after Iranian immolates himself on camera
The asylum seeker from Iran told the Kurdish media outlet Rudaw that he has no work.
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Journalists in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq were criticized by local authorities and on social media Tuesday after a man they were interviewing set himself on fire.
A man from the western Iranian city of Bukan “carried out an act of self-immolation” in front of the United Nations headquarters in Erbil on Tuesday, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) said in a statement.