On November 1, 2026, in the presence of Dr. Haval Abubaker, Governor of Slemani; Dr. Mohsen Adeeb, Director General of Culture and Arts of Slemani; Mohamed Kurdo, Deputy Director General; members of the family and relatives of Martyr Mala Ali; citizens; and his comrades-in-arms, a statue of Martyr Hussein Mawlud, known as Martyr Mala Ali, was unveiled in the Public Park of Slemani.

The statue was funded by the Ministry of Culture and Youth of the Kurdistan Regional Government and created by sculptor Chenar Nizar.

The unveiling ceremony featured speeches delivered on behalf of Martyr Mala Ali’s family, the Martyrs’ Board of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), and the Ministry of Culture and Youth of the Kurdistan Regional Government.

About Martyr Mala Ali

Hussein Mawlud Ahmad, known as Mala Ali, was born in 1953 in the village of Berberd, in the Mawat sub-district. During the 1966–1967 academic year, he attended Al-Wegan Intermediate School in Slemani. That same year, he joined the Kurdistan Students Union and the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP).

In 1975–1976, he was admitted to the University of Sulaimani, where he studied Kurdish in the College of Languages. During his second year of study, the Baghdad regime uncovered his underground political activities. On May 11, 1977, he left for the mountains to join the Kurdish Peshmerga forces.

On January 30, 1979, while carrying out a revolutionary mission with his comrade Dr. Marif Osman Abdulrahman Askari in the villages of the Surdash area, their presence was discovered by the enemies in the village of Krzha, and both men were arrested.

After enduring severe beatings and brutal torture, he was sentenced to death on June 6, 1979, in the the slaughterhouse known as the (Hay’at al-Khasa). On the night of July 22–23, 1979, he was executed by hanging alongside two of his comrades.

During his month and a half in prison, he wrote most of the poems for his modest poetry collection on the inner foil wrappers of cigarette packs—some of which were stained and faded by sweat, dirt, and blood, withered like delicate flowers.