36 journalists have been sent to jail for alleged links with KCK (Union of Communities in Kurdistan) despite lack of evidence of any criminal activities or association with KCK. The list of the detainees is as follows, published on DIHA. …
Posted in Activism, Free speech, Media, Turkey, Women | 1 CommentHalime Erkurt was beaten while in labour. The 27-year old was insulted and cursed by medical staff in Urfa City hospital because she was Kurdish. She says, “They told me that Kurds are bad people and cursed. They were slapping …
Posted in Kurdistan, Turkey, Violence, Women | 2 CommentsThe Iranian Supreme Court has reduced Zeinab Jalalian’s death sentence to life in prison. She was arrested in 2008 in association with an outlawed rebel group PJAK, which she later denied. Her trial was speedy, and legal procedures were not …
Posted in Iran, Kurdistan, Women | Comments Off on Kurdish girl tortured and sentenced to life in PrisonA Kurdish Med student has been arrested in Iran. Rojin Mohemedi was arrested upon her return to Iran. She studied at Manila Medical School of Philippines and has been transferred to Evin prison. The charges against her include incitement of …
Posted in Iran, Kurdistan, Urgent, Women | Comments Off on Kurdish girl arrested in IranVoices that are buried under the debris of silence A letter by Kurdish rights activist Ms. Soraya Fallah to Ms. Shirin Abadi concerning the imminent execution of a female Kurdish political prisoner Zainab Jalalian. (Translated to English from Farsi by …
Posted in Executions, Iran, Political Prisoners, Prisoners of Conscience, Women | Comments Off on Rights activist’s letter of concern over imminent execution of political prisoner in IranAs part of the Iranian regime’s campaign to suppress opposition from ethnic minorities, the executions of Farzad Kamangar, Ali Heydarian, Farhad Vakili, and Shirin Alam Hooli were carried out in Iran at dawn. Another political prisoner, Mehdi Eslamian, was also …
Posted in Censorship, Discrimination, Executions, Iran, Political Prisoners, Suppression, Terror, Violence, Women | 2 CommentsMs. Alam Hooli (born on June 3, 1981) was born in the village of Gheshlagh near the city of Maku in Iran. She was arrested in May of 2007 by the Revolutionary Guards in Tehran. She spent the first 25 …
Posted in Iran, Political Prisoners, Torture, Women | 1 CommentThe following video was taken in the town of Hakkari, Turkey (Colemerg in Kurdish) on March 17, 2010. The footage shows how Turkish police forced children who were celebrating Norouz (new year) to remove Kurdish colors (red, yellow and green) …
Posted in Culture, Turkey, Videos, Women, Youth | 3 Comments