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Kurdish political prisoner dies in prison

Posted on September 16, 2019September 16, 2019 By admin

Mustafa Akyol, former co-chair of Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) was jailed in Ağrı in 2011 and sentenced to 13 years and 6 months in prison for alleged “membership to an illegal organization”.

Jailed in Patnos L Type Closed Prison, Akyol was referred to the Yüzüncü Yıl University (YYÜ) Research Hospital in Van a week ago. He lost his life on September 15, Sunday.

Akyol was a Parkinson patient and suffered from heart disease. His body will be taken to Ağrı for burial today.

Akyol’s lawyers had made an appeal 5 months ago for the release of the Kurdish politician who couldn’t make it in prison. On September 9, 87-year-old prisoner Sıdık Buğruhan lost his life in Maraş Prison.

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The Kurdish Center for Human Rights was established in Geneva in 2000, according to the Suisse civil law. In response to the genocide, war crimes and human rights violations occurring across the Kurdish regions of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria.

The KCHR, as a non-profit organization of social utility, was born from the need to  inform the European and Swiss people and the OHCHR on human rights violations against the Kurds via seminars and other dialogue platforms and to attend their meetings; to establish a dialogue with NGO’s, civil movements, associations, government and civil institutions.. Read More….

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