Amnesty International writes: Iranian juvenile offender, Saman Naseem, could be executed as early as 19 February 2015 for crimes allegedly committed when he was 17 years old. He was sentenced to death after an unfair trial. The family of Saman …
Posted in Call to Actions, Campaigns, Iran, Political Prisoners, Youth | Tagged Iran, Kurdish, Political Prisoner, Stop Execution | 9 CommentsFirst a picture of a boy. Then a black flood overlaid with meter upon meter of red, yellow and green fabric, moving in waves on the shoulders of those beneath it. Finally pale hands, dark hands, wrinkled, callused, steady hands …
Posted in Free speech, Political Prisoners, Protests, Terror, Turkey, Violence, Youth | Tagged Kurds, Peace, Terror, Turkey | Comments Off on In Turkey, a Child is a TerroristThis article is cross-posted from New Internationalist It has been called ‘the secret war’, ‘the unknown war’ and ‘a war inside a war’; all names for a battle that began when the Islamic State (IS) launched its attack on Kobanê, …
Posted in Discrimination, European Union, Free speech, Journalists, Political Prisoners, Terror, Torture, Turkey | Tagged ISIS, Islamic State, Kurds, Rights, Syria, Terror, Turkey | Comments Off on A false Messiah: Turkey’s negative role in the Middle EastGhader Mohammadzadeh, a Kurdish political prisoner, has been transferred to solitary confinement of a central prison in Urmiye, the Human Rights Activists News Agency reports. The reason for the transfer is unknown. According to the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center …
Posted in Extrajudicial Punishment, Iran, Media, Political Prisoners, Trials | Tagged Iran, Kurd, Political Prisoners, torture | Comments Off on Kurdish political prisoner transferred to solitary confinement in IranAmnesty 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 …
Posted in Call to Actions, Extrajudicial Punishment, Health, Iran, Political Prisoners, Torture, Trials | 1 CommentMasoud Shamsinejad, a Kurdish human rights lawyer, appeared on May 7 or 8, 2014 before a court in Iran on charges of membership of an illegal political group and propaganda against the state, writes International Campaign for Human Rights in …
Posted in Iran, Political Prisoners, Trials | Comments Off on Kurdish Lawyer Sentenced to Prison in IranSweet freedom, everyone is looking, so come here Sweet freedom, our eyes are tired because we have been looking for so long Mihemed Şexo, a legendary Kurdish musician, sang this song with as much longing for freedom as his ardent …
Posted in Discrimination, Political Prisoners, Turkey | 1 CommentIn the beginning of the 1990s, when intense battles were taking place between PKK and the Turkish Security Forces, the Law on the Fight Against Terrorism (Terörle Mücadele Kanunu, TMK) was …
Posted in Call to Actions, Political Prisoners, Trials, Turkey, Youth | Comments Off on Juvenile prisons in Turkey should be closed