Kurdish Centre for Human Rights
Centre Kurde des Droits de l’Homme
Reports are coming through of casualties during the growing protests in Southern Kurdistan, Northern Iraq. 17-year-old Ako Selman died in Kifri, Germiyan and a 16-year-old in Chamchamal, Sulaymaniyah.
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Violence and harassment against the prisoners who are on hunger strike in Gebze Women’s Closed Prison increased after the action was launched.
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A prisoner executed and another one at the risk of execution in the coming Days. Two civil rights activists taken to prison and a Kolbar shot dead by Iranian border guards this week in Iran.
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Plus de 500 kurdes originaires du nord de la Syrie se trouvent dans les prisons turques. La plupart d’entre elles ont été kidnappées à Afrin et dans d’autres territoires occupés dans le but d’extorquer des rançons. Si elles ne peuvent pas payer, elles sont remises à la justice turque.
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The Union of Public Sector Employees’ (UNISON’s) Falkirk Branch Chair Margaret Cook and UNISON Women’s Network Chair Pat Heron spoke to Yeni Özgür Politika about the work of women’s trade unionists in the United Kingdom and their project of women’s solidarity with Kurdish women activists against misogyny in Turkey. Heron also stated: “We should also make the British government impose sanctions on Turkey”.
Le président du Conseil européen Charles Michel demande à la Turquie de mettre fin à sa rhétorique agressive et à ses actions provocatrices.
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Economist Çeleng Ömer from Afrin (Efrîn) University has shared images of an olive processing facility in Afrin, in northern Syria, where olive oil is produced. He reports that the revenue from this olive oil production facility – amounting to as much as 100 million USD – has been spent on militant groups.
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War crimes carried out by the Turkish state and its mercenaries, such as kidnapping, harassment, rape, slaughter of women and changes in the demographic structure are increasing by the day in occupied Afrin. The Afrin Human Rights Organization said in a statement that 28 people, including 11 women, were abducted in Afrin in the last 10 days.