Kurdish Centre for Human Rights
Centre Kurde des Droits de l’Homme
The authorities in Kurdistan Regional Government -Iraq, continue to arrest activists and media professionals without allowing their lawyers to meet with them, while the representative of the Metro Center for Defending the Rights of Journalists in Duhok revealed that Başûr Kurdistan suffers from a greatly reduced level of freedoms, as a post on social media leads its publisher to imprisonment.
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Dai primi minuti della mattina del 15 giugno, 60 aerei da guerra dello stato turco hanno bombardato 81 località, comprese le aree civili, a Makhmour, Sinjar, Qandil, Zap e Xakurk. I media turchi, come sempre, hanno cercato di legittimare il bombardamento affermando che era contro i “terroristi”.Nel Kurdistan settentrionale lo stato turco ha utilizzato tutti i meccanismi statali per impedire al popolo curdo di partecipare alla politica democratica.
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The Turkish state has launched a wave of air raids in southern Kurdistan, northern Iraq tonight. The strikes targeted several positions in the regions of Qandil, Maxmur and Shengal (Sinjar), including a refugee camp and hospital.
The Iraqi state medical center in Maxmur is not enough to cope with all needs. In the event of serious health problems and even for routine checks for chronic illnesses, the population used to rely on hospitals in Hewlêr (Erbil), sixty kilometers away.
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The embargo imposed on Makhmur Refugees Camp has been going on for ten months. Yet people repeat the same maxim they used to say: “We will not surrender to the policy of the enemy, no matter what may come.”
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On 16 March 1988, 32 years ago, 5,000 Kurds, mostly women and children, were killed when deadly gas was released on the northern Iraqi town of Halabja by Saddam Hussein’s forces.
According to South Kurdistan Organisation for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, at least 35 women were murdered in the first 9 months of 2019. 57 women committed suicide and 207 others immolated themselves. A balance sheet for the entire year is not available yet.
Security forces for Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) have arbitrarily imposed restrictions on movement for most residents of Makhmour refugee camp for Turkish Kurds since mid-July 2019, Human Rights Watch said today.
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