Hawzah News Agency (Pristina - Kosovo ) - A court in Kosovo has ordered a Muslim woman to be remanded in custody pending trial over a social media post criticizing the US assassination of Iran’s prominent anti-terror commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani.
The court in Pristina accepted a prosecutor’s request to keep in detention Ikballe Berisha Huduti for one month. She is the mother of three and the founder of a pro-Islam organization in Kosovo.
The head of the Kosovo Special Prosecution said Huduti had been arrested on January 7 for publicly inciting violence.
“We took the decision to arrest her … on a penal charge” regarding “her call for revenge, because she made that call publicly,” Blerim Isufaj said.
US President Donald Trump ordered the fatal drone strike on General Soleimani’s motorcade upon his arrival in Baghdad on January 3 at the invitation of the Iraqi government.
The attack also killed Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the second-in-command of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), as well as eight other Iranian and Iraqi people.
One day after Washington’s targeted killings, Huduti wrote on her Facebook page that Soleimani will never die.
“Iraqi people took to the streets of Iraq shortly after the US crime to convict severely the injustice done to the two eminent figures of Iraq and Iran to their two generals General Soleimani and General Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, may God grant patience; By killing the owner of the house, you have killed the whole family, so revenge is obligatory, but there is no limit,” she wrote.
In a second Facbook post, she wrote, “Terrorist America killed our Shia-brother in Iraq, our commander, therefore we must act wherever we are against terrorist American criminals.”
The messages were later deleted, with the woman saying her words were taken out of context by local media.
Huduti also denied writing the second post, saying it had been posted from a Facebook page that she does not run.
The defense team representing Huduti, comprising lawyers Ndue Thaqi and Abnora Zeqiri, said, “There is no well-founded suspicion that the defendant has committed the criminal offense for which she is being held accountable for.”