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	<description>In Defense of Kurdish Human Rights</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Turkey jails Kurdish politician</title>
		<link>http://www.kurdishrights.org/2008/12/04/turkey-jails-kurdish-politician/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leyla Zana is an outspoken critic of Turkey&#8217;s evident discrimination against the Kurdish minority. She has been fighting for Kurdish human rights for many years and was previously imprisoned for 10 years, a harsh price for her peaceful activism. The Turkish government apparently doesn&#8217;t think that&#8217;s enough punishment for this innocent Kurdish activist who does [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turkey: Children face up to 58 years in prison for protest</title>
		<link>http://www.kurdishrights.org/2008/12/01/turkey-children-face-up-to-58-years-in-prison-for-protest/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kurdishrights.org/2008/12/01/turkey-children-face-up-to-58-years-in-prison-for-protest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:55:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Istanbul, 1 Dec. (AKI) - A prosecutor in southern Turkey on Monday charged six children for attacking police with stones in a recent street protest in support of Kurdish separatists. According to the news site of Hurriyet, the stone-throwing youths face up to 58 years in prison if they are convicted.
Six youths, aged from 13 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop the execution of Farzad Kamangar!</title>
		<link>http://www.kurdishrights.org/2008/11/25/stop-the-execution-of-farzad-kamangar-a-kurdish-teacher-and-social-activist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:27:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Appeal to Save Kurdish Social Activist from Death Sentence:
Write to Iranian leaders to stop the execution of Farzad Kamangar, a 32 year old Kurdish teacher and social activist, sentenced to death following an unfair trial.
Cut and paste the following letter into your email.  In the subject line write: &#8220;Stop the Exceution of Farzad Kamangar&#8221;
Send [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraqi Kurdistan welcomes new media outlet</title>
		<link>http://www.kurdishrights.org/2008/11/25/iraqi-kurdistan-welcomes-new-media-outlet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kurdishrights.org/2008/11/25/iraqi-kurdistan-welcomes-new-media-outlet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kurdishrights.org/?p=256</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Kurdish population of the Middle East has always been silenced and generally banned/discouraged from participating in mainstream media outlets. We can still see this through the wave of Kurdish journalists being imprisoned or murdered almost on a monthly basis throughout the region. But this recent news, covered in the United Press International (via ME [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bodies of innocent victims of Saddam&#8217;s Anfal campaign found in Southern Iraq</title>
		<link>http://www.kurdishrights.org/2008/11/19/bodies-of-innocent-victims-of-saddams-anfal-campaign-found-in-southern-iraq/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kurdishrights.org/2008/11/19/bodies-of-innocent-victims-of-saddams-anfal-campaign-found-in-southern-iraq/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kurdishrights.org/?p=258</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Saddam Hussein&#8217;s regime was perhaps mostly known for its ongoing genocide of Kurds, one of the darkest moments of Kurdish history. Recently, the remains of 150 Kurds who were victims of this systematic torture and abuse were found in Southern Iraq, forcing us to remember the severity of Saddam&#8217;s deplorable oppression against Kurds that has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Appeal court upholds 11-year jail term for Kurdish journalist</title>
		<link>http://www.kurdishrights.org/2008/10/31/appeal-court-upholds-11-year-jail-term-for-kurdish-journalist/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kurdishrights.org/2008/10/31/appeal-court-upholds-11-year-jail-term-for-kurdish-journalist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 08:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Reporters Without Borders:
A Tehran appeal court has upheld the 11-year prison sentence that was imposed on journalist Mohammad Sadegh Kabovand for creating a human rights organisation in Iran’s Kurdish northwest. Under Iranian law, sentences of more than 10 years in prison cannot be the subject of appeals to the supreme court.
His lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Kurdish journalist assassinated in Iraq</title>
		<link>http://www.kurdishrights.org/2008/10/14/another-kurdish-journalist-assassinated-in-iraq/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kurdishrights.org/2008/10/14/another-kurdish-journalist-assassinated-in-iraq/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:19:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Middle East News reports:
Unknown gunmen shot dead a 28-year old journalist [Dyar Abbas Ahmed] and an artist on Friday in the northern province of Kirkuk, according to Iraqi police sources.
CNN reported that Dyar worked with Ain, an Iraqi news agency.
In July of this year, 23 year old Soran Mama Hama, also a Kurdish journalist, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Kurdish female activist is arrested in Iran</title>
		<link>http://www.kurdishrights.org/2008/10/07/kurdish-feminist-arrested-in-iran/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kurdishrights.org/2008/10/07/kurdish-feminist-arrested-in-iran/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reports from AKI and independent Kurdish media sources highlight the arrest of another Kurdish female activist in Iran.
Iran: Kurdish feminist arrested
Tehran, 7 Oct. (AKI) - Kurdish feminist and journalist, Neghin Sheikholeslami, has been arrested and detained in the capital Tehran&#8217;s notorious Evin prison (photo).
Sheikholeslami is the fourth Kurdish female activist to be imprisoned in Iran. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Call to Action: Speak out for Kurdish political prisoners in Iran</title>
		<link>http://www.kurdishrights.org/2008/09/28/a-call-to-action-speak-out-for-the-kurdish-prisoners-of-conscience-on-hunger-strike-in-iran/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kurdishrights.org/2008/09/28/a-call-to-action-speak-out-for-the-kurdish-prisoners-of-conscience-on-hunger-strike-in-iran/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As reported last week by the Kurdish Human Rights Project: Some 200 Kurdish prisoners of conscience in Iran are undertaking a hunger strike to protest against use of the death penalty and the prevalence of torture in detention centres throughout the country. Take Action Now - Sign the petition
Kurdish prisoners have been on hunger strike [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Investigating the murder of Kurdish journalist in Iraq</title>
		<link>http://www.kurdishrights.org/2008/09/28/investigating-the-murder-of-kurdish-journalist-soran-mama-hama/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kurdishrights.org/2008/09/28/investigating-the-murder-of-kurdish-journalist-soran-mama-hama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 15:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kurdish activists are still calling for an investigation of Soran Mama Hama&#8217;s death, which was detailed in July by the Committee to Protect Journalists:
Mama Hama, 23, a reporter with the Sulaymania-based Livin magazine, had received threatening messages before the slaying, local journalists told CPJ today. Mama Hama had written articles critical of local authorities, those [...]]]></description>
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