On Sunday Kurdish residents of Cizre, Şırnak Province of Turkey gathered by the thousands to participate in a protest organized by the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP). The mayor of Cizre, Mustafa Gören, was also in attendance, and a general strike …
Posted in Activism, BDP, Censorship, Culture, Protests, Turkey | Comments Off on Protests in the town of Cizre in spite of Turkish CensorshipRojava, Syria: The northern Kurdish region of Syria has seen dramatic street protests and other forms of resistance against the Assad regime since the beginning of the revolution, and even before. But in recent weeks, revolutionary forces across Syria seem …
Posted in Activism, Protests, Syria, Videos | 1 CommentHuman 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 …
Posted in Activism, Health, Hunger Strikes, Iran, Journalists | Comments Off on Kurdish prisoners Mohmmad Kaboodvand and Hossein Maleki on hunger strike in IranLeyla Zana, a prominent Kurdish politician and the first Kurdish woman to win a seat in Turkish parliament, has been sentenced by the Diyarbakır 5th High Criminal Court to 10 years in prison. The charges are in response to “nine …
Posted in Activism, BDP, Censorship, Leyla Zana, Political Prisoners, Trials, Turkey, Women | 1 CommentIbrahîm Ehmed was a Kurdish political activist, writer and translator (born 6 March 1914, Silêmanî, Kurdistan). He passed away on 8 April 2000, aged 86 in his hometown. Ahmad studied Law at the University of Baghdad, and graduated in 1937. …
Posted in Activism, Kurdistan | Comments Off on In memory of Ibrahîm EhmedDiyarbakir’s High Criminal court has banned Newroz celebration pamphlets, the court used Article 6 of Anti-terror law (TMK) to confiscate all posters with slogans reading ‘Either Freedom or Freedom’. It has been claimed that the slogan resembles those of PKK, …
Posted in Activism, Turkey | Comments Off on Turkish Court bans Kurdish New Year PamphletsIn 1989 the secretary general of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI), Dr. Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou, was assassinated in Austria. He and two friends were brutally murdered in an apartment in the suburbs of Vienna by agents of the …
Posted in Activism, Iran | Comments Off on Targeted killings and International Human Rights Law – convergence or confrontation?Dear loyal readers and campaigners; Alliance For Kurdish Rights started with the aim of giving Kurdish people a voice in countries where their rights are disregarded and abused. In the beginning of 2012, we promised to give greater coverage of …
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