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| | UNHCR - UK Home Office Immigration and Nationality Directorate Country Assessment - Iraq |
 | | The PUK withdrew from the Assembly and the wrangling over a regional President led to armed conflict between fighters belonging to the PUK and the KDP in May 1994, resulting in the division of the northern Kurdish-controlled enclave into two zones. |
 | | For example, in the impoverished Shi'a district of Al-Thawra in Baghdad, a crowd of tens of thousands was attacked by government security forces using automatic weapons and armoured vehicles, which resulted in the deaths of approximately 25 mourners (although estimates ranged up to 400) including, according to one report, the imam of the Al-Thawra mosque. |
 | | However, the PUK and KDP have enacted laws establishing an independent judiciary, providing for freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, the right to form political parties, and women's and workers' rights, and, according to press reporting and independent observers, both groups generally observed such laws in practice. |
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