Authorities in the Iraqi Kurdistan region are set to free Berivan Ayoub Hassan, a 35-year old mother of five held without charge for over 16 months, following the release of two more “prisoners of conscience” last Thursday, a lawyer defending the prisoners told The New Arab. Hassan, along with hundreds of other protestors from the Badinan area of Duhok province, was accused by the Kurdistan Region’s Security Council (KRSC) of “endangering national security” on the back ofanti-government protests in Dohuk 2020. Her trial was postponed twice before she was sentenced on 6 March to two years in pr…