Kurdish Centre for Human Rights
Centre Kurde des Droits de l’Homme
In northeastern Syria, two local politicians have been kidnapped and beheaded by unknown persons. The crime pattern points to ISIS sleeper cells. According to relatives, the two women had already…
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Sentenced to 22 years, 3 months in prison, Democratic Society Congress (DTK) Co-Chair Leyla Güven has been taken into prison.
The Co-chair of the Lawyers Union in al-Jazira region, Khadija Ibrahim, indicated that the will of the Kurdish women was targeted by the Turkish state, which enacted laws according to its mentality, and said: “The relevant institutions are in that sleep of death.”
The Missing Afrin Women Project is dedicated to document the crimes carried out by the mercenaries affiliated to the Turkish state in Afrin. The project has recorded over 200 cases of women abducted by mercenaries since the invasion of Afrin in March 2018.
The Maat Foundation for Peace, Development and Human Rights issued a report entitled “Racist Policies: Escalating Violence Against Women in Turkey”, which deals with the high rates of violence that have doubled with the spread of the Corona epidemic.
Eleven political prisoners in Diyarbakir women’s prison describe the prison conditions in a letter to human rights lawyer Eren Keskin. The pandemic is being used as an alibi for degrading treatment.
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The investigation by Jin News Agency of a rape case in the Gercüş (Kercews) district of Batman (Elih) in Turkey has revealed that 27 men – including a specialized sergeant, a police officer and village guards – were reportedly involved in the rape of a fifteen-year-old child and forced two women into prostitution.
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Violence and harassment against the prisoners who are on hunger strike in Gebze Women’s Closed Prison increased after the action was launched.
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