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German woman kidnapped in Baghdad

By AFP
July 22, 2020

BAGHDAD: A German national was kidnapped late on Tuesday outside her office in central Baghdad, a security source and a friend told AFP.

Hella Mewis, a who ran arts programmes at the Iraqi art collective Tarkib, had left her office and was "riding her bicycle when two cars, one of them a white pickup truck (of the type) used by some security forces, were seen kidnapping her," the security source said.