Kurdish Centre for Human Rights
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The foreign ministers of European countries expressed their annoyance over Turkey’s actions in the eastern Mediterranean, Libya and Cyprus, while they postponed imposing sanctions on Ankara to the meeting on Thursday.
Read More “European Union: Turkey’s actions exacerbate the dispute” »
The Constitutional Court rejected the demand to release seriously ill prisoner Abdullah Turan, who is paralyzed from the neck down, despite a report confirming that he cannot stay in prison.
Read More “Seriously ill prisoner Turan remains in prison” »
The investigation by Jin News Agency of a rape case in the Gercüş (Kercews) district of Batman (Elih) in Turkey has revealed that 27 men – including a specialized sergeant, a police officer and village guards – were reportedly involved in the rape of a fifteen-year-old child and forced two women into prostitution.
Read More “Broadcast ban on Jin News’ reporting of a rape case in Batman, Turkey” »
Prisoners in Turkey started a five-day alternating hunger strike on 27 November to protest the isolation of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan and mistreatments in Turkish prisons. The strike, which started with the participation of many prisoners across several different prisons, was taken over by a third group on 7 December.
Read More “Lawyer Köklü: strikers’ demands are legal and legitimate” »
A criminal complaint was filed against journalist Ayşegül Doğan, a program coordinator of İMC TV, which was closed down by a governmental decree (KHK), on the grounds of her journalistic activities and her alleged activity within the Democratic Society Congress (DTK).
Read More “Journalist Doğan sentenced to 6 years in prison” »
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.
Read More “Two killed, dozens injured during protests in Southern Kurdistan” »
Violence and harassment against the prisoners who are on hunger strike in Gebze Women’s Closed Prison increased after the action was launched.
Read More “Women prisoners expose increase in rights violations in Gebze” »
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.
Read More “Prisoner Executed, Civil Rights Activists arrested in Iran” »