The New Generation Faction in the Kurdistan Parliament announced today that KDP forces in Duhok province abducted Sipan Amedi, a Kurdistan Parliament member from the New Generation Faction, and took him to an unknown location.

"This gangster-like act by the PDK follows comments made by the MP about PDK leader Masoud Barzani, where Amedi questioned whether Barzani's life and a Peshmerga's life were the same," said the faction in a statement.

The New Generation Faction condemned the KDP's behavior as a "mafia-style" abduction of a parliament member. They further asserted that Masoud Barzani and his family are not only deserving of Amedi's criticism but are also the primary cause of the Kurdish people's suffering, having impoverished Kurdistan through their "theft and looting."