Kurdish activist Hiwa Butimar has had his appeal rejected and has been sentenced to death by Iran’s Revolutionary Court, the Iranian Minorities’ Human Rights Organisation (IMHRO) reported....
Published earlier but worth revisiting, from the Associated Press: STRASBOURG, France: The European Court of Human Rights is facing a huge case backlog and at its current pace would need 46 years to r...
Turkish parliament’s justice committee on Friday accepted the bill to amend the controversial Article 301, which holds immense restrictions on freedom of speech in Turkey and in which Turkish ...
From Reporters Without Borders: Reporters Without Borders condemns the 11 April decision of a criminal court in Sanandaj, in Iran’s northwestern Kurdish region, to close the Kurdish-language dai...
Turkey’s violation of civil liberties continues with the latest development in the charges brought against 56 mayors for writing a letter to the Danish prime minister requesting him not to shut ...
Urge Turkey to abolish article 301 in which Leyla Zana was indicted under. Amnesty International is extremely concerned with the frequent use of Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code (TPC) to prosecut...
From the online newspaper, Yeni Ozgur Politika, translated by Rasti: The identities of two of the eight people [Kurds] who had been taken by Bolu Brigade [Turkish counter-guerilla forces] from their h...
European Turkey Civic Commission (EUTCC) April 11, 2008 Leyla Zana, a well know political spokesperson for the Kurds in Turkey has been sentenced to two years imprisonment by a Turkish Court in the so...