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Category: Iraq

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

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

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

Written Statement: The targeting of Yazidis in Sinjar, Iraq

Posted on February 12, 2021February 27, 2021 By admin
Written Statement: The targeting of Yazidis in Sinjar, Iraq

Human Rights Council Forty-sixth session 22 February–19 March 2021 Agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development A/HRC/46/NGO/50 Written statement* submitted by Maat for Peace, Development and Human Rights Association, a non- governmental organization in special consultative status PDF Preamble Maat…

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Iraq, OHCHR

Journalists: KDP cooperates with enemies of Kurds to undermines unity initiatives

Posted on February 9, 2021February 15, 2021 By admin
Journalists: KDP cooperates with enemies of Kurds to undermines unity initiatives

The Kurdistan Democratic Party (PDK) policies pose a threat to the Kurds and Kurdistan, and Kurdish journalists confirm that the PDK is constantly cooperating with the enemies, moves according to a clan mentality and undermines all unity initiatives. The PDK’s policies greatly affects the Kurdish people, and Kurdish journalists believe that this policy contributed to…

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Iraq, News

Yazidi girl exposes Daesh ISIS atrocities

Posted on January 26, 2021January 30, 2021 By admin
Yazidi girl exposes Daesh ISIS atrocities

Yazidi survivor Najla Saeed Ismail indicated that ISIS mercenaries had transferred a number of Yazidi women to Turkey, including her sister, said that if it had not left us a lone by the governments of Baghdad and Başûr Kurdistan, we would not have reached where we are today. Yazidi survivor Najla Saeed Ismail is 23…

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Iraq, Women

Spanish government “concerned” for use of death penalty in Iraq

Posted on December 16, 2020December 20, 2020 By admin

The Spanish government has responded in writing to the question moved by senators Gorka Elejabarrieta Diaz (Euskal Herria Bildu) and Jordi Marti Deulofeu (Esquerra Republicana) regarding the death penalty handed out to Abdurrahman Er and Mazlum Dağ.

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Iraq, News

Two killed, dozens injured during protests in Southern Kurdistan

Posted on December 7, 2020December 8, 2020 By admin

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.

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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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  • Amnesty İnternational: JOURNALISTS MUST BE RELEASED IMMEDIATELY
  • Amnesty International calls for the release of five journalists in Kurdistan Region
  • Yaylalı: “The fate of the prisoners in Gare was clear since the beginning of the invasion”
  • Written Statement: The targeting of Yazidis in Sinjar, Iraq
  • Journalists: KDP cooperates with enemies of Kurds to undermines unity initiatives

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