Human Rights Watch called for the immediate release of 6 people who were detained during a peaceful demonstration in Hewler in protest at the clashes in Shengal.
HRW: 32 arrested at peaceful protest in KRG
Category: Reports
UN report on the destruction and rights violations in Turkey
The UN Human Rights Office on Friday published a report detailing allegations of massive destruction, killings and numerous other serious human rights violations committed between July 2015 and December 2016 in southeast Turkey.
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CoE Secretary General warns Turkey on journalists and right violations
Following the visit of Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ in Strasbourg, the Council of Europe (CoE) Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland published a press statement warning the member state on severe violations of journalists and parliamentarians rights.
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Türkdoğan: Worst period for human rights in Turkey
IHD Co-chair Öztürk Türkdoğan: “We are experiencing the worst period for human rights. We are facing developments that never should have happened in a country that claims it’s democratic.”
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GABB: Report on Local Democracy and Appointment of State Commissioners to Municipalities in Turkey
Prelude Political history of Turkey evidences that only in military junta periods appointed officials carried out official duties of elected local administrations. Read Report in PDF Appointed soldiers or bureaucrats…
OHCHR: Report on the human rights situation in South-East Turkey, July 2015 to December 2016
Keskin: World Health Organization should investigate the Turkish prisons
IHD Co-chair Eren Keskin pointed out the increasingly severe condition of the sick arrestees in prisons and that they had no more opportunities for treatment under the State of Emergency, and called on the World Health Organisation to investigate.
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Raimondi: Isolation of Öcalan is a violation of his right
The ECHR President Guido Raimondi stated that the isolation of Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan violates the European Convention on Human Rights.
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