Last year, the American news website, Gawker, released internal documents from within an outsourcing firm which employs “content moderators” to screen content posted on Facebook. Gawker obtained the documents from an employee of the firm, Amine Derkaoui, a 21-year old Moroccan …
Posted in Activism, BDP, Censorship, Discrimination, Free speech, Turkey | 2 CommentsZeynab Jalalian is a 31-year-old Kurdish woman who was arrested in May 2008 in Kermanshah for her alleged membership of an illegal Kurdish opposition party within Iran and charged with “enmity against God”. Around January 2009, Zeynab was sentenced to …
Posted in Discrimination, Iran, Political Prisoners, Torture, Trials | Comments Off on Zeynab Jalalian: Refused medical treatment in Iranian prisonShirkoo Moarefi, a Kurdish civil rights activist incarcerated in Iran’s Saghez Prison, was executed on Monday. Neither his family nor his lawyers were given prior notice, as is demanded by the law, that his death sentence was to be carried …
Posted in Executions, Free speech, Iran, Political Prisoners | 1 CommentThe mayor of Nusaybin district, Ayse Gokkan has been protesting against the construction of a wall at the Turkish-Syrian border between the two cities of Qamishli and Nusaybin. The wall has been dubbed as a “wall of shame” a phrase …
Posted in Activism, BDP, Call to Actions, Campaigns, Kurdistan, Women | 3 Comments