Imagine a government that serves its people and not itself; a government that strives to implement laws and regulations that provide grounds for the empowerment of freedom, equality and individuality. A government that is always aware that it consists of …
Posted in Free speech, Political Prisoners, Protests, Turkey | Comments Off on The government that sought revenge on its peopleErgani – 6 members of the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party’s (BDP) youth assembly were Friday night detained by undercover police, reports Dicle News Agency. They were arrested after leaving a football match and brought to Ergani District Police Headquarters. …
Posted in BDP, Political Prisoners, Turkey, Youth | Comments Off on 3 youth members of BDP arrested for propagandaTwo Kurdish political prisoners, Zanyar Moradi and Loghman Moradi, are facing execution as the Iranian government moves forward on charges of murder, reports the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. Zanyar and Loghman Moradi were arrested in August 2009 …
Posted in Executions, Iran, Political Prisoners, Torture, Trials | Comments Off on Two Kurdish prisoners face execution in IranThe Kurdish people were still in mourning, commemorating the one-year-anniversary of the Roboskî Massacre that claimed the lives of 34 civilian Kurdish boys and men. Then news came in the second week of January that three Kurdish women had been …
Posted in Censorship, Discrimination, Executions, Free speech, Iran, Journalists, Kurdistan, Political Prisoners, Syria, Terror, Torture, Trials, Turkey | Comments Off on May 2014 not begin with yet another funeralThe Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has issued a special report that puts Turkey as the number 1 country in the world with the most jailed journalists for the second …
Posted in Censorship, Free speech, Journalists, Media, Political Prisoners, Trials, Turkey | Comments Off on Turkey: World’s biggest prison for journalists – againTurkey’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 …
Posted in Health, Political Prisoners, Turkey | Comments Off on IHD: Seriously Ill Prisoners Must Be ReleasedOn November 16, Prime Minister of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, uttered the word “Kurdistan” in public when he was giving a speech in the Kurdish city of Amed, its official name being Diyarbakir after order from Atatürk in 1937, the …
Posted in Discrimination, Free speech, Hunger Strikes, Kurdistan, Language, Political Prisoners, Protests, Torture, Trials, Turkey, Youth | Comments Off on What peace process, Erdogan and Barzanî?United Nation’s Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment states in its first principle that “All persons under any form of detention …
Posted in Call to Actions, Political Prisoners, Protests, Suppression, Torture, Turkey | Comments Off on Protest against Camera Surveillance in Turkish Prisons