Monthly Archives: June 2012
Posted on June 21, 2012 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Recent events in Turkey have shed a critical, if heated, light on the prison system in Turkey. On Saturday 16 June, several inmates of the Urfa prison set their bedding on fire in protest of the prison’s extreme overcrowding. Thirteen …
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Political Prisoners,
Protests,
Turkey |
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Posted on June 4, 2012 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Human rights activist Mohmmad Seddigh Kaboodvand was transferred to the Evin Prison infirmary on the tenth day of his hunger strike against his unfair detention by the Iranian government. Kaboodvand began his hunger strike on May 26th after he was denied a …
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Activism,
Health,
Hunger Strikes,
Iran,
Journalists |
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