Monthly Archives: June 2012

Fire isn’t Turkey’s biggest problem when it comes to prisons

Posted on 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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Kurdish prisoners Mohmmad Kaboodvand and Hossein Maleki on hunger strike in Iran

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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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