The Committee to Protect Journalists has criticized the suspension of a Kurdish reporter in northeast Syria who did not refer to killed Kurdish fighters there as having been “martyred.”

The New York-based organization that promotes press freedom said authorities in the autonomous administration of north and east Syria should allow Rudaw’s Vivian Fatah to report again at once.

“The authorities in northeastern Syria should reinstate Vivian Fatah’s press credentials immediately, and stop interfering with the workings of the press,” the Committee to Protect Journalists said in a statement.

The autonomous administration is the Kurdish-led government in northeast Syria. The Democratic Union Party (PYD) is the dominant party there. Rudaw is affiliated with the rival Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) based in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The KDP and the Barzani family that runs it also enjoy support in Kurdish areas of Syria. The PYD’s armed wing, the People’s Protection Units (YPG), leads the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) that control northeast Syria.