Category: Journalists
Posted on March 12, 2011 by Minhaj Akreyi
The Syrian government recently has intensified its arrests and abductions of the Kurdish activists who speak out against the inequality and discrimination the Kurdish people face in Syria. In 2010, dozens of Kurdish political activists were sentenced to prison on …
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Suppression,
Syria,
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Posted on March 9, 2011 by Minhaj Akreyi
On February 20, masked gunmen attacked and burned the first and only independent TV channel, Nalia Radio and Television – NRT – in the Kurdistan region for its live coverage of the demonstrations in Sulaimaniyah, which is still continuing today …
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Iraq,
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Kurdistan,
Media,
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Posted on February 8, 2011 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Organizations and individuals are asking for support for the nomination of the imprisoned founder of the Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan (HROK), Mr. Mohammad Sadegh Kaboudvand, for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize. Kurdish rights activist and journalist, Mr. Mohammad Sadegh …
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Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan,
Iran,
Journalists,
Petition,
Political Prisoners,
Prisoners of Conscience |
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Posted on August 12, 2010 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Jake Hess, an American journalist, has been arrested in Turkey, facing accusations that he has links with the illegal organization, Kurdish Communities Union, or KCK. He has also been accused of leaking information to U.S. authorities about the conditions in …
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Posted on May 14, 2010 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
A Diyarbakir court convicted Vedat Kursun, the former editor of Azadiya Welat, Turkey’s only Kurdish-language daily on 103 counts of propaganda for a terrorist organization (the PKK) and membership in an illegal organization. Kursun was sentenced to 166 years and …
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Posted on May 8, 2010 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Hundreds of students marched the streets of Sulaimaniyah in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and called for an investigation into the murder of a Kurdish journalist. Sardasht Othman, a Kurdish journalist that was known for his critical writings of the …
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Posted on April 3, 2010 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
With a recent three-year of imprisonment verdict for the former editor of Turkey’s only Kurdish-language daily, the country’s judiciary continues to utilize Turkey’s Anti-Terrorism Law to repress freedom of speech. Vedat Kursun, the former editor Azadiya Welat (Free Country), was …
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Posted on February 14, 2010 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Below is a Reporters Sans Frontières (Reporters Without Borders) press release about the heavy verdict issued to Ozan Kilinç, the editor and owner of the only Kurdish paper in Turkey. Kurdish newspaper editor sentenced to 21 years in prison February …
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