Abdullah Ahmed told Rudaw on Saturday that his son and nephew are among those detained.
"Last night, my son called me saying 'I have been locked away
Please don't kill me!
in the city of Tarablus [Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
]," Ahmed said.
His son said they were arrested "for trying to migrate to Europe," but Ahmed disputed that charge. "No one uses the Leb
...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration....route to migrate to Europe," he said.
He called on the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to help free them.
A government spokesperson said they are involved.
"We are aware of the situation of the detainees. They were arrested in different areas and eventually imprisoned in one place," Abdulkhaliq Mohammed, media officer for the Department of Foreign Relations of the Kurdistan Region, told Rudaw.
Mohammed assured worried families that they are "working to repatriate them."
"Those who do not carry passports because of any reasons, we will issue temporary passports for them. We will be working with the embassy of Iraq in Lebanon to repatriate them," he added.
A well-placed source from the Kurdistan Region's Ministry of the Interior said they will set up a team tasked with working for the return of the 21 detained in Lebanon.
Thousands of Kurds attempt the perilous journey to Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
each year, often through
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
and more recently Libya, because of its strategic location and proximity to Italia.