Monthly Archives: July 2013

In Memory of Shawaneh Ghaderi: Killed 8 years ago by Iranian government

Posted on by Alliance for Kurdish Rights

8 years ago today, a Kurdish activist went to the central square in the Kurdish city of Mehabad to join other students in commemoration of the 1999 student protests in Tehran that were violently repressed by the Iranian government. The name …

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AKR statement on recent events in Amudê

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Alliance for Kurdish Rights (AKR) is deeply concerned about the events that recently unfolded in the city of Amudê in West Kurdistan (Northern part of Syria). On June 27, hundreds of Kurds in the city of Amudê gathered to protest …

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Prosecutors decree confidentiality on the probe into Lice Massacre

Posted on by Alliance for Kurdish Rights

Confidentiality has been decreed on the probe regarding the massacre that took place during the protest against the construction of military outposts in the Kayacık village of Diyarbakır’s Lice district Diyarbakır Public Prosecution Office authorized with the 10th article of …

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