Kurdish Centre for Human Rights
Centre Kurde des Droits de l’Homme
The Supreme Court of Sweden has rejected AKP government’s request for the extradition of Kurdish political asylum seeker Mehmet Turgay in consideration of a risk of repression and torture in Turkey.
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Juvenile Prisons Must Be Banned Initiative called attention to the ongoing right violations and ill-treatment of child prisoners, stating that there are currently a total of 2200 children jailed in Turkey and North Kurdistan.
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Turkish soldiers deployed at the border to Rojava, West Kurdistan, continue committing cruelty against the civilians crossing the border, where 4 people have been killed during the past 4 weeks.
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Human Rights Association (IHD) Diyarbakir Branch has disclosed the report of 2015 on violations of rights in Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia Regions’ at a press conference in the main Kurdish city.
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A Turkish court has decided to drop charges against a Turkish soldier who shot dead 28-year-old Saada Darwich from Rojava on the border. HDP Şırnak MP Faysal Sarıyıldız has raised the issue in the Turkish Parliament, asking Interior Minister Sebahattin Öztürk why the soldiers responsible were not even charged with causing death through negligence.
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Iran continues to commit crimes inside the country while the international powers pursue negotiations with the regime on its nuclear program. Iran has executed 25 activists since the beginning of April.
Human Rights Association (IHD) released the Report on Human Rights Violations in Turkey for 2014 in the Turkish capital Ankara. The report says 335 women lost their lives as a result of suicide, violence and rape in 2014 during which also 68 children were deprived of their right to life, 1,237 people were arrested, 3,401 others were subjected to torture and ill treatment.
The Human Rights Association (IHD) in Turkey has issued a statement highlighting the ill treatment, sexual abuse and rape of children in prisons in Van, Şakran, Pozantı and Sincan and called for children’s rights to be protected.
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