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Tuesday, April 17, 2007
"Security forces in the city of Sulaimaniya arrested on Tuesday the editor-in-chief of (Lavin) Magazine, Ahmed Mera, after publishing an article on the repercussions of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani's recent illness, an official from the Kurdish magazine said. "After publishing an article titled ‘Legacy of the sick man’ on the repercussions of the recent illness of President Talabani, security authorities phoned the editor-in-chief on March 16 and asked for some information on the magazine and its editor," Heman Baqer told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI). "The editor called me this morning and told me that security forces were at his office and then he just disappeared and we could not find him as all his cell phones were turned off," he added."