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TÜRKIYE : Lawyers at risk – 20 June 2024

September 1, 2024 hugo dersim

MRAP Is a French organisation born of underground resistance to Nazism and fascism, it was officially founded in 1949 on the initiative of former members of the Resistance and deportees. MRAP is member of the French National Human Rights Institution (Commission Nationale Consultative des Droits de l’Homme – CNCDH) and it enjoys UN-ECOSOC status since…

Europe, Human Rights, Turkey

May 3, 2023 hugo dersim

The Republic of Cyprus arrested Kenan Ayaz, a Kurdish political refugee, on March 15, 2023, following an arrest warrant issued by the German government. Kenan Ayaz, 49, spent 12 years in various prisons in Turkey for his political ideas and as an activist of the Kurdish movement. Since 2013 he has been living in Cyprus…