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80 journalists and media employees behind bars in Turkey

Posted on March 14, 2021January 9, 2023 By admin
80 journalists and media employees behind bars in Turkey

At least 80 journalists and media employees are currently in prison in Turkey, according to the media rights organization MLSA. The IFJ describes the country ruled by Erdoğan as the “largest jailer of journalists in the world”. At least eighty journalists are currently in prison in Turkey. This was announced by the media rights organization…

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News, Turkey

Amnesty İnternational: JOURNALISTS MUST BE RELEASED IMMEDIATELY

Posted on February 28, 2021January 9, 2023 By admin
Amnesty İnternational: JOURNALISTS MUST BE RELEASED IMMEDIATELY

Amnesty International calls for the release of five journalists in Kurdistan Region. Reactions are growing to the latest arrest of 5 journalists and activists from Behdinan by the KDP which already holds nearly 50 journalists behind bars in southern Kurdistan, northern Iraq. On 16 February, the 2nd Erbil (Hewler) Criminal Court, in the Kurdish Region…

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Iraq, Press Releases

Written Statement: Violations of the Turkish-backed armed factions in northeastern Syrian Arab Republic

Posted on February 28, 2021January 9, 2023 By admin
Written Statement: Violations of the Turkish-backed armed factions in northeastern Syrian Arab Republic

Human Rights Council Forty-sixth session 22 February–19 March 2021 Agenda item 4 Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention A/HRC/46/NGO/74 Written statement* submitted by Partners For Transparency, a non-governmental organization in special consultative status PDF Preamble Personal safety of civilians in northeastern Syrian Arab Republic (Syria) has become very difficult to attain due to…

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OHCHR, Syria, War Crimes

SHOR: Turkey’s gangs digging near the Roman Amphitheater in Nabi Huri, Afrin

Posted on February 27, 2021January 9, 2023 By admin
SHOR: Turkey’s gangs digging near the Roman Amphitheater in Nabi Huri, Afrin

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that military groups of the Turkish-backed factions returned excavation work in the surrounding areas of the “Roman amphitheater” near the Nabi Huri fortress in Shera district in Afrin countryside, north-west Aleppo. According to SOHR sources, Turkish-backed militiamen have used heavy diggers and earth-moving machineries for digging and excavating…

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News, Reports, Syria

Amnesty International calls for the release of five journalists in Kurdistan Region

Posted on February 26, 2021January 9, 2023 By admin

On 16 February, the 2nd Erbil (Hewler) Criminal Court, in the Kurdish Region of Iraq’s capital, sentenced activists and journalists Sherwan Sherwani, Ghudar Zebari, Hussein Issa, Ayaz Karan and Shvan Saeed to six years in prison following an unfair trial, based on trumped-up charges of “destabilizing the security and stability of the Kurdistan Region of…

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Iraq, News, Reports

Written statement: Enforced Disappearance: Women in Afrin

Posted on February 24, 2021January 9, 2023 By admin
Written statement: Enforced Disappearance: Women in Afrin

Human Rights Council Forty-sixth session 22 February–19 March 2021 Agenda item 4 A/HRC/46/NGO/35 Written statement* submitted by Maat for Peace, Development and Human Rights Association, a non- governmental organization in special consultative status PDF Preamble Over the past ten years, the Syrian people have suffered by all parties to the conflict, including severe repression and…

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OHCHR, Women

HDP Law and Human Rights Commission:143 people detained in two days

Posted on February 15, 2021January 9, 2023 By admin
HDP Law and Human Rights Commission:143 people detained in two days

Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) released a statement about the detention of students and politicians in several provinces across Turkey over the past two days. At least 143 people were detained, according to the party. Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Law and Human Rights Commission released a statement on Saturday (February 13) and announced that at least…

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News, Turkey

Yaylalı: “The fate of the prisoners in Gare was clear since the beginning of the invasion”

Posted on February 14, 2021January 9, 2023 By admin
Yaylalı: “The fate of the prisoners in Gare was clear since the beginning of the invasion”

Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar makes propaganda with the PKK POWs killed in the Gare invasion. Yannis Vasilis Yaylalı, who himself was a POW, says: “A state that massacres its own soldiers is capable of anything.” Tayyip Erdogan announced glad tidings on February 8 in his “speech to the nation” on Wednesday. Then on Wednesday,…

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Iraq, News, Turkey

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The Kurdish Center for Human Rights was established in Geneva in 2000, according to the Suisse civil law. In response to the genocide, war crimes and human rights violations occurring across the Kurdish regions of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria.

The KCHR, as a non-profit organization of social utility, was born from the need to  inform the European and Swiss people and the OHCHR on human rights violations against the Kurds via seminars and other dialogue platforms and to attend their meetings; to establish a dialogue with NGO’s, civil movements, associations, government and civil institutions.. Read More….

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