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.
Source: IMHRO
2008-04-18
Hiwa Butimar a 29 year old Kurdish journalist and environmental activist have been sentenced to death by branch number one of the Revolutionary Court in Mariwan city, [...]
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May 13, 2008
Special Report from Kurdish Aspect:
A Kurdish Youth is shot by Iranian Security Forces and is left to die bleeding
A disturbing video has appeared on Youtube of Iranian Pasdarans of the Islamic Republic [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)] wrapping the body of an alive Kurdish teenager at a remote location in Piranshar in Iranian Kurdistan. [...]
May 6, 2008
From Kurdish Aspect:
Syrian Forces suppress more Kurdish Festivals on May Day
Syrian authorities prepared to break up another Kurdish celebration, this time marking May Day or International Workers’ Day. Security forces confronted Kurdish celebrators in the city of Ayn al-Arab (Kurdish: Kobane) using tear gas and fired live bullets over the heads of the celebrators. There [...]
April 25, 2008
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 rule on all complaints, a survey said Wednesday.
The court, underfunded and lacking judges, is struggling with almost 80,000 cases, some of them [...]
April 21, 2008
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 officials agree that the article has “embarrassed Turkey abroad”. However, intellectuals and writers in Turkey have very little to celebrate about considering the trivial changes.
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April 20, 2008
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 daily [Rojhelat] for good on the grounds that it had received money from abroad. The court took the position that it broke the law by selling copies across the [...]
April 15, 2008
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 down the Kurdish broadcast station, Roj-TV, in Denmark after being pressured by Turkey to take it off the air.
When Turkish prosecutors initially raised [...]
April 13, 2008
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 homes under the pretext of showing them an address, and then returning them, have been revealed. These people were Hasan Örhan and his brother, [...]
April 13, 2008
European Turkey Civic Commission (EUTCC)
11 April 2008
EUTCC press release: Kurdish spokesperson Leyla Zana convicted to two years in prison
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 southeastern city of Diyarbakir. The court’s judgment said she violated Article 7/2 [...]
April 13, 2008
Hold Accountable Those Responsible for Unlawful Killings
Human Rights Watch (New York, March 24, 2008) – Syrian authorities should seek an independent investigation into the March 20 shootings by security forces that left three Kurds dead and at least five wounded at a New Year’s celebration, Human Rights Watch said today. The circumstances of the shootings [...]
April 13, 2008
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL LONDON
AI Index: EUR 44/007/2008
Health concern/ill-treatment
Fifteen-year-old Cuneyt Ertus was arrested by police after Newroz (New Year) demonstrations on 22 March in the south-eastern city of Hakkari. He was apparently ill-treated during and after his arrest and is currently being held on remand at Bitlis Prison. He has been charged with offences including [...]
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