Iraq’s judiciary ordered the dissolution of three political parties in the Kurdistan region over alleged links to the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a move the parties denounced as “a dangerous precedent for democracy”. The Yazidi Freedom and Democracy Party, the Democratic Struggle Front Party, and the Kurdistan Society Party “Tafgari Azadi” were dissolved on 1 August by a panel of three judges at Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Authority. The ruling followed a complaint by the Office of Political Parties and Political Organisations at Iraq’s High Independent Electoral Commission (IHEC). The …