Iraq issues arrest warrant against Kurdistan referendum commission members

An Iraqi court on Wednesday issued arrest warrants for members of the electoral commission for the Kurdish independence referendum that processed the controversial separatist poll on Sept. 25.


An overwhelming majority of Kurds in the semi-autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan region voted to secede from Iraq, but the polling was dismissed as unconstitutional by the central government in the capital, Baghdad, from where Iraq's judiciary issued the latest warrants.

A spokesman for the court, Abdulstar Bayraqdar, said the warrants followed a lawsuit filed by the country's National Security Council which argued that the referendum was "contrary to the decision of the high federal court".
 EFE/EPA/BBC
 11/10/17
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