Category: Political Prisoners
Posted on March 8, 2021 by Naila Bozo
It was evening we barely escaped. Like the rain falling we could not stop. We were a train of tears as we were walking there like a winding trail of smoke a village climbing a mountain. We were wet, were …
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Culture,
Discrimination,
Executions,
Kurdistan,
Political Prisoners,
Turkey,
Women |
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Kurdish rights,
Women's day |
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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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Call to Actions,
Extrajudicial Punishment,
Health,
Iran,
Political Prisoners,
Women |
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Human Rights,
Iran,
Jalalian,
Kurdish rights |
Comments Off on Call to Action: Kurdish political prisoner denied medical aid in Iran
Posted on June 14, 2019 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Zara Mohammedi, a 27-year-old Kurdish teacher, was arrested on May 23rd, 2019 by Iranian authorities for teaching Kurdish children to speak and read in their mother tongue. She was arrested alongside two other teachers, Idris Menbari and Rebwar Menbari; they …
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Iran,
Language,
Political Prisoners,
Women |
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Human Rights,
Iran,
Kurdish rights |
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Posted on September 29, 2016 by Naila Bozo
He looked like my father, the grey-haired, tanned Kurdish mayor of a little district made up of only 120,000 people in southeastern Turkey. To me, most Kurdish men who have fathered children look alike. They are stern. They are sometimes …
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Displacements,
Free speech,
Human Rights Watch,
Journalists,
Political Prisoners,
Protests,
Suppression,
Terror,
Turkey |
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Freedom,
Guerrilla,
Kurdish rights,
Kurds,
PKK,
Turkey,
War |
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Posted on September 20, 2015 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
A reliable source has informed Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that Omar Chapr, a Kurdish political prisoner from North Kurdistan (southeastern Turkey), has been removed from his ward in Orumiye prison and transferred to an unknown location by Iranian security …
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Political Prisoners,
Torture,
Turkey |
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Posted on June 22, 2015 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
According to BBC Persian, the family of Mansour Arwand has confirmed that the 39-year-old Kurdish political prisoner was recently executed by the Iranian regime. Adding to the family’s distress, authorities have allegedly refused to hand over the body of Mr. …
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Executions,
Hunger Strikes,
Iran,
Political Prisoners,
Torture |
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execution,
Iran,
Mansour Arwand,
Political Prisoner |
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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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Health,
Political Prisoners,
Turkey |
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Ill prisoner,
Kurd,
Turkey |
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Posted on February 20, 2015 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
A France-based organisation, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network claims that it has confirmed reports that brothers Ali and Habib Afshari have been executed. They were arrested in late 2010/early 2011 on charges of ‘waging enmity against God’ through ‘propaganda activities’ and ‘membership in a dissident …
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Executions,
Iran,
Kurdistan,
Political Prisoners,
Torture,
Trials,
Youth |
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execution,
Iran,
Kurdish Political Prisoner,
Kurdistan |
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