Kurdish-Arabic radio station ordered closed in Mosul

Local authorities closed a newly opened radio station on Saturday, accusing it of inciting violence and ethnic strife in the northern Iraq mixed city of Mosul.

Al-Rashid radio was shut down because its programming was aimed at “sowing sedition and fueling tension” between Kurds and Arabs in the city, said Ismael Gouran, a Kurdish member of the local provincial council.

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Source: Media Network