Category: Health
Posted on November 10, 2019 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Kurdish political prisoner Zeynab Jalalian continues to be denied sufficient medical treatment, writes Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) who has spoken to Ms. Jalalian’s family. Zeynab Jalalian is a Kurdish woman in the beginning of her thirties who was …
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Posted on March 29, 2015 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
On a morning in 2012, the Turkish police knocked on the door of Mehmet Öztekin’s house. He was then taken away by the police who would not provide any explanation or evidence for the charges that gave them authority to …
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Posted on August 30, 2014 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Terrifying stories about the plight of the people in Kurdistan and Iraq fleeing the terrorist group Islamic State are shaking the world and has forced the international community to take immediate action to relieve their suffering. The United Nations has …
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Posted on June 30, 2014 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Amnesty International is encouraging people to take action on behalf of Zeynab Jalalian, a Kurdish prisoner who was sentenced to death by Kermanshah Revolutionary Court, a verdict that was later changed to to life in prison ”Zeynab Jalalian has had …
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Posted on December 4, 2013 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Turkey’s Human Rights Association (IHD) has recently issued a press release about its research on ill prisoners in Turkey. It states that as of November 3rd, there are 544 ill prisoners in Turkish prisons and 154 of them are seriously …
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Posted on May 30, 2013 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Azad Tokmak has started a new freedom campaign for his mother, Fatma Tokmak, a political prisoner who suffers from serious heart diseases. The freedom campaign aims to get his mother released from prison so that she can undergo a proper …
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Posted on May 25, 2013 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Ramazan Özalp, a Kurdish political prisoner in Antep Prison in Turkey, became paralysed due to the tumor in his brain. Despite this and having undergone 3 medical operations, Özalp has still not been released from prison, DIHA (Dicle News Agency) …
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Posted on May 24, 2013 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Taylan Çintay, a Kurdish political prisoner suffering from cancer, was hospitalized one day after his medical operation. He started bleeding as he was beaten at the entrance of the prison and was taken to the emergency room. The prison authorities …
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