Kurdish Centre for Human Rights
Centre Kurde des Droits de l’Homme
One of the prisoners in Tarsus Hadi Elçiçek spoke with his son on the phone and told him about the torture they had been subjected to since December 7 and said, “We have also been subjected to torture with electricity.”
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TİHV Diyarbakır Representative Barış Yavuz pointed out that torture has been legitimized by AKP’s blatant practices and said that inhumane torture practices continue in prisons they are not allowed to inspect.
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Kurdish political prisoner Efşin Hisên Penahi, who had been detained and arrested in Rojhilat, has been subjected to torture by Iranian forces. Efşin’s health had suffered after the intense torture, but reportedly hasn’t been taken to a hospital.
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Footage had surfaced of HPG guerrilla Cuma Imen being captured alive in the Beytüşşebap district countryside in Şırnak and Imen was later executed by soldiers. Cuma Imen’s family demand their child’s body and say they will take the execution to court.
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This reports includes the general description and the current situation of the Ilisu Dam and Hydroelectric Powerplant Project. It gives the basics for interested people working politically on the Ilisu Project, one of the most controversial dams worldwide as it would lead to grave social, cultural and ecological impacts in a larger region.
Lawyer Eren Keskin stated that the UCAVs are the new tool for extrajudicial killings and said the state that was founded with the Ittihat mentality has been implementing the same policies since the genocide of 1915.
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States speaking in the UN Human Rights Sessions criticized Turkey harshly and urged the country to end rights violations at once.
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein stated that institutions and individuals interested in the Kurdish issue are targeted by the government.
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