Kurdish Centre for Human Rights
Centre Kurde des Droits de l’Homme
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that Turkey should take all necessary measures to ensure the immediate release of the former co-chair of the HDP, Salahuddin Demirtaş.
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Speaking to Mezopotamya Agency (MA), lawyer Serdar Çelebi said that the decision regarding his client, Leyla Güven, who was sentenced to 22 years and 3 months in prison and detained on the accusation of “being a member of a terrorist organization” and “propagandizing a terrorist organization” due to her duties as the co-chair of the Democratic Society Congress (DTK), was scandalous.
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The Human Rights Association (İHD), Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TİHV), Human Rights Agenda Association (İHGD), Rights Initiative Association (HİD), Citizens Assembly (YD), Association for Monitoring Equal Rights (ESHİD), Amnesty International Turkey publiched an joint statement about the bill for the prevention of the financing of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction violates the constitution and freedom of association!
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Sentenced to 22 years, 3 months in prison, Democratic Society Congress (DTK) Co-Chair Leyla Güven has been taken into prison.
The Co-chair of the Lawyers Union in al-Jazira region, Khadija Ibrahim, indicated that the will of the Kurdish women was targeted by the Turkish state, which enacted laws according to its mentality, and said: “The relevant institutions are in that sleep of death.”
The Missing Afrin Women Project is dedicated to document the crimes carried out by the mercenaries affiliated to the Turkish state in Afrin. The project has recorded over 200 cases of women abducted by mercenaries since the invasion of Afrin in March 2018.
The hunger strike launched by prisoners demanding the end of the isolation imposed in Imrali continues on day 23, with the 5th group of prisoners.
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Human Rights Watch reported that as all parties to the Syrian conflict are committing serious violations of the laws of war, the Russian intervention was characterized by the indiscriminate bombing of schools, hospitals and markets, and cost Moscow millions of dollars collected from the Russian people’s taxes.
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