An unnamed Kurdish-Swedish poet filed a police report after receiving a death threat via telephone from Islamists in Iraq. The threat came after a poem he wrote on women's rights was published in the Kurdish regions of Iraq.
A Kurdish poet living in the province of Värmland in Sweden wrote a poem dealing with the subject of women’s rights sometime before 2011. The poem was reportedly disseminated in northern Iraq, after which an angry response followed from many Muslims in the area. A mullah spoke against the poet and poem during a Friday prayer session, pleading for punishment for God. The poet himself then received a death threat by telephone from enraged Islamists.
The death threat was initially reported in a local newspaper, but the poet requested his name not be published. Swedish PEN expressed concern over the incident.
Kurdish poet gets death threat in Sweden - The Local
