Kurdish Centre for Human Rights
Centre Kurde des Droits de l’Homme
The campaign can be supported by additional signatures. Signatures, reports, pictures and information of actions can be sent to solidarityalive@riseup.net . These will be published on www.solidaritykeepsusalive.org of the campaign, with background information and letters from prisoners.
The Turkish Parliament on Thursday approved stripping three of its members of immunity from prosecution. Two HDP MPs and one CHP MP had their parliamentary immunity removed on Thursday.
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A new campaign named “Water for Rojava” has been launched two weeks ago aiming at rising funds to help women’s co-operatives and democratic local municipalities in Rojava and other parts of North-East Syria.
Dilgeş is only three years old. He has been in prison with his mother for almost two weeks. He suffers from kidney disease and cannot eat the prison food. Because there is no hot water, he cannot have a bath.
365 lawyers from many countries signed a petition signed to the Supreme Court for jailed lawyers Ebru Timtik and Aytaş Ünsal who are on death fast. Family of Timtik appeal on people to speak out for the two lawyers.
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Barış Çakan, 20-year-old born in Patnos in Ağrı, and living in Ankara, was stabbed to death.
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The Hrant Dink Foundation said in a written statement that on 27-28 May 2020 they had received a written death threat via email which included the phrase ‘We may turn up one night, when you least expect it’, a slogan used boastfully in certain circles, and the very same slogan people were well used to hearing before Hrant Dink was so publicly assassinated, and with the knowledge of official bodies, on 19 January 2007.
The Human Rights Association (IHD) Van Branch and Van Prisoners’ Families Aid and the Solidarity Association (TUHAY-DER) published a report after their visit to Van High Security, T and F type prisons.
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