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The Human Rights Association (IHD) Istanbul branch prisoners commission held its 453rd “F Session” to draw attention to the situation of ill prisoners, through social media.
Kurdish Centre for Human Rights
Centre Kurde des Droits de l’Homme
The Human Rights Association (IHD) Istanbul branch prisoners commission held its 453rd “F Session” to draw attention to the situation of ill prisoners, through social media.
Five years after the killing Tahir Elçi, at the scene of the crime in the old cental district of Sur, the Amed Bar Association remembered the human rights lawyer: “Your dream of a democratic, free and peaceful life is also our dream.”
Read More “Tribute to Tahir Elçi in Amed: Your dream is our dream” »
Commenting on the implementation of a systematic isolation on Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan, Human Rights Association (IHD) co-chair Öztürk Türkdoğan said that a democratization in Turkey will not be possible as long as the war policies and isolation remain. Türkdoğan stated that the isolation imposed on Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan is unlawful and “Imralı Prison must be closed”.
Law organizations criticized the detention of the lawyers from ÖHD in front of the Çağlayan Courthouse and expressed that; “No force can silence us. Our rank is on the side of the workers, the oppressed, the Kurdish people.”
Read More “Law organizations: We will continue to defend the Kurdish people” »
A report from the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (FIDH-OMCT) and İnsan Hakları Derneği (IHD, Human Rights Association, a member of FIDH and of OMCT’s SOS-Torture network) documents the restrictions affecting the right to freedom of assembly in Turkey, including for women’s rights defenders.
Read More “IHD: Freedom of assembly under attack as women demonstrate for their rights” »
“In order for us to live free, equal, fair, in mutual trust and ecological balance, the demand for accountability is as indispensable as an uninterrupted resistance of women like free society against sexist, capitalist exploitation,” we write in the appeal of our campaign “100 reasons to condemn the dictator”.
The male policies of the government led to violence and murder of many women this year in Turkey. According to the statistics of We Will Stop Femicide Platform, at least 246 women were murdered between January and October this year. Many women’s deaths were found suspicious.
Read More “We Will Stop Femicide Platform: 246 women killed since January 2020” »
The Human Rights Association (IHD) Izmir branch Women’s Commission issued a statement to mark 25 November International Day of Struggle Against Violence Against Women, drawing attention to the situation of 11 women prisoners in Şakran Women’s Closed Prison.
Read More “IHD denounces worsening of ill women prisoners in Şakran jail” »