Kurdish Centre for Human Rights
Centre Kurde des Droits de l’Homme
On 29 September 2019, numerous individuals have been arrested by the police following raids into their residences in Dersim early on a Sunday morning. These persons include former and current executives of Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (Halkların Demokratik Partisi –HDP) Dersim provincial organization.
The two-day photographic exhibition in Kobani concluded with the aim of shedding light on the violations of the Turkish occupation against antiquities in Afrin, two days after its opening.
The 392nd sit-in organised by the Prison Commission of the Istanbul Branch of the Human Rights Association (IHD), was held despite the heavy police presence which prevented the action to be held in Galatasaray square. The sit-in is demanding the release of sick prisoners every week.
An aid convoy escorted by Russian military vehicles wanted to distribute good and supplies to the displaced people of Afrin who are staying in Wahshi village of the Shehba Canton.
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Human Rights Foundation of Turkey Documentation Center 24-25 Settembre 2019
Operations and Attacks in Southeast…
It is learned that 2 soldiers died in a bombing attack to a military vehicle in Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government on September 23, 2019.
Human Rights Association Ankara president Nuray Çevirmen said that in Turkey there is a huge problem with prisons.
Ebdulkerîm Omer, co-chair of the Department of Foreign Relations of the Autonomous Administration of Northern and Eastern Syria, spoke about the Syrian constitutional committee announced by the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
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Rights violations against political prisoners in Bolu F-Type Prison have been exposed. The prisoners, writing about their experiences, said that Nurullah Semo had been kept in a room alone for 2 years and that he was exposed to insults and threats every morning during the counting.
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