Kurdish Centre for Human Rights
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Turkish businessman, human-rights defender and activist Osman Kavala has been behind bars since November 1, 2017, standing trial on charges of attempting to overthrow the government, based on accusations that he organized and funded nationwide protests in 2013’s Gezi protests against then-Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan.
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Ursula Mueller, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator highlighted the worsening humanitarian situation for people in many parts of Syria. In a briefing to the…
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The “Network Against Violence”, an association of various women’s organisations in Amed (Diyarbakir), presented a report on violence against women at a press conference at the Human Rights Association (IHD).
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For the fourth consecutive year, at least 250 journalists are imprisoned globally as authoritarians like Xi Jinping, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Mohammed bin Salman, and Abdel Fattah el-Sisi show no signs of letting up on the critical media. A CPJ special report by Elana Beiser
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Devran Yildiz co-chair of the Human Rights Association (IHD) Batman Branch, evaluated the continue isolation in Imralı. Kurdish people’s leader Abdullah Öcalan is in Imralı for 20 years and has not been seen since 7 August .
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The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has given a verdict of right violation for businessperson Osman Kavala, who was detained on October 18, 2017 and has been arrested since November 1, 2017.
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According to the report released by the Freedom of Expression Association (İFÖD), “While access to 80,553 websites was blocked from Turkey as of the beginning of 2015, this figure is 288,310 in total as of October 2019.”
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The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and the Human Rights Joint Platform (IHOP) have issued a briefing paper on “Turkey’s Judicial Reform Strategy and Judicial Independence.”
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