Kurdish Centre for Human Rights
Centre Kurde des Droits de l’Homme
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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Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that, on Sunday, November 1, security forces have raided the family home of two Civilians (Saman Asadhakim and Mohammad Shafeizadeh) at the village of Dewaznav in Sarvabad city and arrested them. The two civilians were then transferred to an unknown location.
Human rights activists in ad-Darbasiyah district explained that Turkey is violating international laws and norms in Imrali prison, and is practicing isolation within isolation on the leader Ocalan, calling on human rights organizations to do their duty regarding what Turkey is doing to political detainees.
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The administrations of al-Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor cities said that abolishing the co-presidency system is a fight against struggling ideology and values in northern and eastern Syria. They noted: “We do not accept any project targeting our regions and system.”
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