Category: Torture
Posted on January 9, 2016 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Mr. Ibrahim Parlak, a 52-year-old Kurdish restaurant owner from Michigan, USA, faces possible deportation to Turkey where he was imprisoned and tortured before fleeing to the United States in the early 1990s. Mr. Parlak was active in the Kurdish rights …
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Posted on January 7, 2016 by Naila Bozo
Three Kurdish rights campaigners affiliated with the pro-minority and pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) were on Monday night killed in Silopi, a district in the Şirnak Province in northern Kurdistan (southeastern Turkey) when Turkish armed forces who have laid siege …
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Comments Off on Three Kurdish Politicians Killed by Turkish Armed Forces
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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Comments Off on Fate of Kurdish Political Prisoner Unknown
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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Comments Off on Another Kurdish Political Prisoner Executed In Iran
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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Comments Off on Iran: Two Kurdish Political Prisoners Executed
Posted on November 29, 2014 by Naila Bozo
This 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, …
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Syria,
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Comments Off on A false Messiah: Turkey’s negative role in the Middle East
Posted on October 25, 2014 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Today marks the 500th week that the Saturday Mothers have gathered in a public square in Istanbul to demand justice for their family members who went missing at the hand of the Turkish state. The Saturday Mothers are women of …
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Comments Off on Saturday Mothers Come Together For The 500th Week
Posted on June 30, 2014 by Alliance for Kurdish Rights
Amnesty 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 …
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