Category: Reports
Posted on March 26, 2009 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
The Society for Threatened Peoples, Göttingen, reports: Society for Threatened Peoples asks EU foreign ministers for help: Court case against Mashal Tamo must be closed! With an urgent request for help the Society for Threatened Peoples (GfbV) wrote on Monday …
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Posted on March 4, 2009 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
The European Court of Human Rights has contributed much to the improvement of human rights in Turkey and the country’s reform process as it works to join the European Union, but has seen its reputation plummet among Kurds and observant …
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Posted on February 25, 2009 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Human rights monitors say Iranian authorities continue to detain and harass men and women of Iran’s ethnic Kurdish minority. According to the Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan, an independent human rights group, more than 100 ethnic Kurdish literary, cultural, and …
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Posted on February 16, 2009 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Former Turkish State Minister confesses: Massacres blamed on PKK were committed by the Turkish State Ekmen confessed it: The Güçlükonak massacre was conducted by the state. The former state minister responsible for human rights, Adnan Ekmen, had important statements about …
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Posted on January 11, 2009 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Human Rights Watch has released a 42-page report titled, “Freedom of Expression and Association in the Kurdish Regions”. The report: [D]ocuments how Iranian authorities use security laws, press laws, and other legislation to arrest and prosecute Iranian Kurds solely for …
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Posted on December 24, 2008 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Reports have emerged indicating that Mohammad Sadiq Kaboudvand, journalist and founder of Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan, has suffered a second heart attack on the 17th of December while in prison. Kaboudvand was charged with “acting against national security by …
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Posted on September 26, 2008 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
As reported earlier this month, an estimated 200 Kurdish prisoners of conscience have initiated a hunger strike in the prisons of Iran. The Committee for the Support of Hunger Strike for Kurdish Political Prisoners released the following three reports on …
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Posted on September 23, 2008 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Thomas Seibert reports on the pending trial against the main Kurdish political party in Turkey, the Democratic Society Party (DTP). The DTP is the just the latest Kurdish party of several that have had to face the threat of closure …
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