According to the Iraqi figures: Kidnapped German Hella Mewis is free again

in Iraq, deported German Hella Mewis is again on free foot. The Yehia Rasool, a spokesman for the Iraqi armed forces announced on Friday morning on Twitter. "Hella free", also reported an Iraqi Confidant of the German. Details about how Mewis came a few days after her Disappearance on Monday night, called the army spokesman initially. Later it was called from the security agencies, Mewis had been liberated early in the Morning, local time, in the case of a use outside of Baghdad by security forces.

Christoph Ehrhardt

a correspondent for the Arab countries, based in Beirut.

Mewis had been taken away, according to information from security forces on Monday in the Baghdad district of Karrada Armed. The background of the fact remained initially unclear. The German had operated in the Iraqi capital, the cultural centre "Bait Tarkib", the young Iraqi artist promotes. They also supported the Iraqi protest movement, the calls for since October of last year, the corrupt political class of Iraq and his konfessiona list System out.

The activists of the protest movement are faced with brutal Repression by Iran-loyal Shia militias, and with them, allied forces in the security apparatus. Again and again activists were deported and murdered.

With a political and cultural commitment

irritated a lot of people, Iraqi observers, the militias suspected to be behind Mewis' abduction. These are also suspected to be the same for other similar cases in the recent past, responsible. A spokesman for the notorious group Kataib Hizbullah distanced himself on Tuesday from the abduction of the German and blamed on "gangs" of the new heads of government MustafaKadhemi. With him, the group is currently in a deepening conflict. The anticipatory denial does not necessarily mean that the Kataib-the Hizbullah militia, or groups from your haze circle had nothing to do with the kidnapping.