Monthly Archives: August 2008
Posted on August 31, 2008 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Reuters correspondent, Khaled Yacoub Oweis, reports: DAMASCUS, Aug 31 (Reuters) – Syrian authorities have arrested two Kurdish leaders and charged one with a capital offence, as part of a campaign to crush political dissidents that has triggered international protests. The …
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Free speech,
Political Prisoners,
Prisoners of Conscience,
Suppression,
Syria,
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Posted on August 13, 2008 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
This is recent and disturbing news from AKI (Adnkoronos International Iran), showing that the mistreatment of Kurds: Yousuf Ben Azizi, was found guilty of ‘subversive activities’ after he published several articles three years ago after protests in the city of …
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Free speech,
Iran |
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Posted on August 9, 2008 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Massoud Kordpour is a Kurdish human rights activist who has been arrested for the second time by the Iranian authorities supposedly for “spying” for foreign governments: This time authorities accused him of being a spy after he gave interviews to …
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Iran,
Journalists,
Reports,
Trials |
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Human Rights,
Iran,
kordpour,
Kurds,
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