Kurdish Centre for Human Rights
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A twenty-year-old was allegedly shot in the back by soldiers in Van. Mehmet Ali Nametoğulları reports on the army attack, in which he was heavily injured. On 7 February, 20-year-old…
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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…
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Investigations carried out by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) demonstrate the human rights violations committed by Iran against Kurds in the first month of the year as 101 have…
More than 100 people were subjected to torture and maltreatment, 16 civilians lost their lives in the conflict and the right to assembly was often restricted, according to the Human…
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The wave of arrests against Kurdish civil society in Iran harshly affects women. Some of the women detained continue to be interrogated in Revolutionary Guard prisons. The wave of arrests…
An abducted Yazidi woman has been delivered to Turkey for trial “on charges of terrorism”. A Yazidi woman aged 45, named Ghazala Mannan Salmo, from the Yazidi village of Basufan…
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Human Rights School has prepared a new report regarding the pressure on academics in Turkey. The report has shown that academic staff has become an instrument of pressure in itself…
The United Nations envoy to Syria said that the fifth session of the so-called “Syrian Constitutional Committee” was disappointing, and that he planned to attend the Astana meeting between the…
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