According to Mafnew, Mostafapour, a 25-year-old political prisoner, was expected to be released this year. He was arrested in 1991 on a charge of being related to one of the Kurdish political parties. He was...
20 Kurdish magazine and newspapers in one city were closed down by Iranian government According to news agency Kurdpa, Press General Office of the Ministry of Culture said in a previous statement last year, the...
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan24) – Yousef Kakehmami, an Iranian Kurd already serving a nine-year sentence in Oroumieh Central Prison, was sentenced to five more years for writing a letter to the United Nations (UN). Kakehmami...
A hearing for summary judgement in the case of of Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Ocalan was held in Athens. The decision of the case will be declared within 3 to 12 months, and lawyer Rachiotis...
The Iranian government holds thousands citizens in prison, among them hundreds of political activists, dissidents, journalists and members of banned exiled political parties. The government sees and deals with them strictly as a security issue....
European Parliament Turkey Rapporteur Kati Piri has commentated how the civilians were leaving the basement in Sur; “There are serious human rights violations taking place and the desperation of many people is getting bigger”. Minister...
The indefinite, round-the-clock curfews that the AKP government has declared in Turkeys Kurdish provinces since August 16, 2015 continue to deepen the emergency situation that undermines basic human rights and freedoms in the region, including...
Urgent Action; Kurdish Juvenile offender Amanj Veisee has been sentenced to death for the second time, after a retrial Juvenile offender Amanj Veisee has been sentenced to death for the second time, after a retrial....
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