Monthly Archives: February 2010

Turkey: Kurdish newspaper editor sentenced to 21 years in prison

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Below is a Reporters Sans Frontières (Reporters Without Borders) press release about the heavy verdict issued to Ozan Kilinç, the editor and owner of the only Kurdish paper in Turkey. Kurdish newspaper editor sentenced to 21 years in prison February …

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Farzad Kamangar, Kurdish Political Prisoner on Death Row, Writes to His Mother from Evin Prison

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Below is a letter from Farzad Kamangar, A Kurdish teacher who was sentenced to death for alleged ties to the PKK. In his trial, which lasted seven minutes, neither Kamangar or his lawyer were allowed to speak. Below is a …

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Iran: Harsh Crackdown on the Kurdish Minority

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Another wave in the arrest and imprisonment of Kurdish people in Iran has begun. In recent days, a large number of activists in fields ranging from environmental science, literature, art, business, labor rights advocacy and academia to politics have been …

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