The 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 CommentsFollowing the March 21 shooting at Kurds celebrating Norouz (new year) in the town of Ar-Raqqah, which left at least one person dead, the international human rights organizations Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have issued statements today. According to …
Posted in Human Rights Watch, Suppression, Syria, Terror, Violence, Youth | Comments Off on Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International Issue Statements on the Syria Norouz ShootingOn Thursday lunchtime, the body of Kurdish student, Muhamad Jawad Parndakh, yet another of those who lost their lives in recent arrests, was laid to rest in Gilan Gharb in Kermanshah province.
Posted in Executions, Free speech, Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan, Iran, Kurdistan, Suppression, Youth | Comments Off on HROK: Another Kurdish student becomes the victim of recent Iranian election unrestThe Supreme Court of Appeals has called the killing of a father and 12-year-old son “legitimate defence”. The family is considering an appeal to the ECHR. Bianet reports: In April 2007, four police officers, Mehmet Karaca, Yasafettin Açıkgöz, Seydi Ahmet …
Posted in Discrimination, Extrajudicial Punishment, Trials, Turkey, Violence, Youth | Comments Off on Turkish Court Ratifies Acquittal of Police Killing Kurdish Father and SonThe Society for Threatened Peoples (GfbV) reports: In Aleppo in the north of Syria 180 mainly Kurdish students are threatened shortly before their examination with a disciplinary action which can mean expulsion from the University. A letter written in Arabian …
Posted in Discrimination, Syria, Youth | Comments Off on GfbV: Syria, University of Aleppo threatens 180 Kurdish students with expulsionKurds demonstrated last week in the predominantly Kurdish southeastern region of Turkey to protest the recent wave of arrests against members of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP). During the demonstrations, one Kurdish boy, age 14, was severely beaten by …
Posted in Democratic Society Party, Discrimination, Free speech, Turkey, Violence, Youth | 2 CommentsBia news centre (bianet.org) – Diyarbakir: Ten children who participated in protests in Diyarbakır during the visit of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on 20 October 2008 are on trial, but their hearings have again been postponed. On Tuesday, there …
Posted in Free speech, Trials, Turkey, Youth | Comments Off on Turkish police prevent the release of childrenFrom Iran Human Rights Voice: Hana Abedi is a Kurdish student who has been in detention for the past fourteen months, with the last two months spent in exile in Razan Prison in the city of Hamedan. Her family members …
Posted in Iran, Trials, Women, Youth | Comments Off on Presiding Judge in Hana Abedi Case Not Aware of Her Exile