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On the evening of Saturday, November 7, a Kurdish border porter–known as Kolbar- named ‘Saber Khezri’ was injured following a landmines Explosion In the border mountain of “Mirgeh Drijan” Piranshahr in West Azerbaijan province’, a local sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN).
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A Yazidi (Êzîdî) town in Sinjar in Iraqi Kurdistan was bombed by unmanned aerial vehicles from Turkey. Call of Yazidis in PDF
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Human rights defenders and relatives of missing persons continue to demand answers regarding the fate of those who were disappeared by the state under custody in Turkey.
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An appeal for the annulment of the death sentence for Abdurrahman Er and Mazlum Dağ has been signed by politicians, unionists, MPs, activists in the UK. Senators of the Parliamentary Group Esquerra Republicana – Euskal Herria Bildu at the Spanish Parliament have tabled a question to the Spanish Government about the death sentence.
Prominent human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has been temporarily released from a prison in Tehran. She was jailed two years ago on spying and propaganda charges.
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A court has fined a police officer 19,000 Turkish lira after he killed six-year-old Furkan Yıldırım and seven-year-old Muhammed Yıldırım with a police panzer while they were sleeping in their home.
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According to the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK), the number of prisoners in Turkey has markedly increased in recent times. Human rights defenders have additionally stated that the conditions of prisoners have worsened. TÜİK said that the number of people held in prisons in Turkey reached 291,546 as of 31 December 2019.
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Au Royaume-Uni, plusieurs personnalités ont appelé à l’annulation de la peine de mort prononcée contre Abdurrahman Er et Mazlum Dağ par la justice de la région autonome du Sud-Kurdistan (Irak).
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