Monthly Archives: January 2011
Posted on January 31, 2011 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Voices that are buried under the debris of silence A letter by Kurdish rights activist Ms. Soraya Fallah to Ms. Shirin Abadi concerning the imminent execution of a female Kurdish political prisoner Zainab Jalalian. (Translated to English from Farsi by …
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Posted on January 29, 2011 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Reuters Ibon Villelabeitia reports on Turkey’s refusal to allow European MPs to attend the trial of Kurdish defandants in what some say are landmark cases regarding the Kurdish question in Turkey: Euro MPs say they banned from Kurdish trial (Reuters) …
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Posted on January 27, 2011 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Kurdish political prisoner Mr. Farhad Tarom has reportedly become the latest executed prisoner in Iran according to a number of independent sources inside Iran. According to the outlawed Kurdish News Agency, Mr. Farhad Tarom had been residing in Iraqi Kurdistan …
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Posted on January 22, 2011 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Just a couple of weeks after activists worldwide began protesting the imminent risk of execution of Kurdish political prisoner, Mr. Habibollah Latifi, Iranian authorities reportedly executed another political prisoner, Mr. Hossein Khezri. A number of unverified reports state that Mr. …
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Posted on January 17, 2011 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Rights group decries ‘execution binge’ in Iran Associated Press: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iranian authorities have unleashed an “execution binge” with an average rate of one person hanged every eight hours since the beginning of the year, a rights …
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