ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Ibrahim Biro, head of the Kurdish National Council (KNC, ENKS) was arrested by the Asayesh, Kurdish security forces, on Saturday in Qamishli, Rojava, northern Syria.
“Asayesh forces in Qamishli arrested Ibrahim Biro, head of the ENKS and another leader from the Kurdish Union Party named Sleman Auso at the city’s bazaar without any justification and they were taken to an unknown place,” Dilshad Gado, a member of the Kurdish Union Party in Syria, told Rudaw.
On the same day, supporters of the ruling Democratic Union Party (PYD) in Qamishli have taken down the Kurdish flag from the office of the Kurdish Union Party on the southern side of the city, according to information obtained by Rudaw.
In an earlier interview Biro conducted with Rudaw, he said that his life was in danger in Rojava and he had been threatened with arrest several times by the PYD if he returned to the city.
“In the near future, I will return to Rojava from the Kurdistan Region. They [authorities] tell me that I should not return to Rojava, otherwise I will be arrested. But I do not care what they say and I return,” he told Rudaw on July 17 when he was in the Kurdistan Region.
