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Regarding Turkish State’s and Iraq’s attacks to Maxmur Refugee Camp

Posted on June 3, 2023 By hugo dersim
Regarding Turkish State’s and Iraq’s attacks to Maxmur Refugee Camp

Maxmur camp has been targeted by the Iraqi state after the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), as a result of the impositions of the Turkish state. The Iraqi state wants to surround the camp with hundreds of soldiers, police and gendarmes, military and bulldozers, and to surround the Ertus refugee camp with wire fences. The Turkish…

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Iraq, Turkey

Istanbul murder of street musician racially motivated, says Kurdish politician

Posted on May 4, 2023May 4, 2023 By hugo dersim
Istanbul murder of street musician racially motivated, says Kurdish politician

A young Kurdish street musician was killed in Istanbul over refusing to play an ultra-nationalist Turkish anthem. Cihan Aymaz was a volunteer for the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and was facing trial for singing a protest song. Street musician Cihan Aymaz was stabbed to death in Istanbul for refusing to play a song, local…

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Human Rights
Posted on May 3, 2023 By hugo dersim

The Republic of Cyprus arrested Kenan Ayaz, a Kurdish political refugee, on March 15, 2023, following an arrest warrant issued by the German government. Kenan Ayaz, 49, spent 12 years in various prisons in Turkey for his political ideas and as an activist of the Kurdish movement. Since 2013 he has been living in Cyprus…

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Europe, Human Rights, News, Press Releases

HRW calls on Turkey to free, end harassment of journalists, party officials, lawyers

Posted on April 27, 2023 By hugo dersim
HRW calls on Turkey to free, end harassment of journalists, party officials, lawyers

International groups demand the release of Kurdish journalists, lawyers, and political party officials arrested in a pre-election crackdown in Turkey. Absent any credible evidence of wrongdoing, Turkey should release dozens of Kurdish  journalists,  political party officials, and lawyers arrested in raids on April 25, 2023,  in advance of the May 14 national elections, 18 organizations…

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Press Releases, Turkey

KurdDAO Launches Fundraising Campaign in Support of Kurdish Human Rights

Posted on January 2, 2023January 9, 2023 By Centre Kurde Genève
KurdDAO Launches Fundraising Campaign in Support of Kurdish Human Rights

Jan. 2 2023 — Supporters of Kurdish international solidarity have come together to release KurdDAO, a non-profit fundraising DAO in coordination with the Kurdish Centre for Human Rights, initially backing projects to strengthen Kurdish women’s rights as well as raising awareness and support for Kurdish political prisoners and the spread of democratic modernity in the…

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Children, Press Releases, War Crimes, Women

Iran must halt imminent execution of Kurdish prisoner – UN experts 

Posted on September 3, 2021January 9, 2023 By Centre Kurde Genève
Iran must halt imminent execution of Kurdish prisoner – UN experts 

Persian version GENEVA (3 September 2021) – UN human rights experts* have appealed to Iran to halt the imminent execution of Iranian Kurdish prisoner Heidar Ghorbani and repeal his death sentence amid serious concerns that he did not receive a fair trial and was tortured during pre-trial detention. “The Iranian authorities must immediately halt the…

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Iran, OHCHR

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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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