Once upon a time there was a troll, Hans Christian Andersen wrote. This troll was the worst of the trolls, he was the Devil and the Devil had a mirror. It was a wicked invention; everything good and beautiful became …
Posted in Censorship, Media, Turkey | Comments Off on ROJ TV in the Land of the Snow QueenKurdish blogger and Human rights activist Rojin Mohemedi has been released from Evin prison. She was released on the 2nd of January according to her Facebook fan page. When she returned to Iran from Istanbul, she was arrested at the …
Posted in Censorship, Free speech, Iran | 2 CommentsBaran Nayır and Ali Deniz Kılıç attended a Pro-Kurdish rally on the 6th of December 2009 organised by BDP in Istanbul. They were arrested, and accused of having six Molotov cocktails in their possession. The fingerprint results on the Molotov …
Posted in Censorship, Turkey, Youth | Comments Off on Two University students in custody since 2009 for attending pro-Kurdish rallyIstanbul, Turkey- Dawn on Tuesday brought an unfortunate wake up call to many Kurds and especially to journalists as a wave of arrests across Turkey picked up 40 people, most of whom are journalists. The arrests came under the premise …
Posted in Censorship, Media, Turkey | 1 CommentA Kurdish man has been shot 8 times, and severely beaten after he requested a Kurdish song to be played at a nightclub in Turkey, Izmir. The man is identified as Gazi Akbayar, and originally from Tunceli. According to CNN …
Posted in Censorship, Discrimination, Turkey | 5 CommentsIn the past months, hundreds of Kurdish activists and Pro-Kurdish activists have been arrested. Among them, politicians, writers and political thinkers detained on questionable grounds in Turkey. Recent arrests have been made, once again on the grounds that they have ‘hidden’ …
Posted in BDP, Campaigns, Censorship, Kurdistan, Turkey | 1 CommentIn an annual census of imprisoned journalists conducted by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Iran and Turkey were listed amongst the countries with the most number of arrests. Other countries noted as the world’s worst for journalists included China, …
Posted in Censorship, Discrimination, Free speech, Iran, Journalists, Political Prisoners, Reports, Turkey | Comments Off on Iran and Turkey maintain statuses as worst countries for journalistsNew report released by IHD Adana branch highlights the Human rights violations of Kurdish activists in prison. The report concludes the following; – Children prisoners forced to say Turkish national anthem. – Expired or rotten food were given to both …
Posted in Activism, Censorship, Discrimination, Turkey | 1 Comment