Tag: prison

Report on torture in prisons- Turkey

September 1, 2024 hugo dersim

Since the coup d’état in Turkey on July 15, 2016, there has been an increase in the repression of lawyers, artists, opposition parties and organizations, and especially of the Kurdish community. David Kaye, the Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression, who visited Turkey in 2016, stated that “the Turkish government has a very broad concept of terrorism” and “considers anyone who opposes it to be a terrorist.” (1) A similar assessment was made by Ignacio Sanchez Amor, the European Union’s rapporteur on Turkey. The fact that the Turkish government considers everyone who does not agree with it to be a “terrorist member, terrorist” leads the majority of the opposition, especially the Kurdish, to see them as enemies.

Human Rights, Prisons, Turkey

CONFERENCE: POLITICAL PRISONERS WORLDWIDE AND IN TURKEY

February 7, 2024February 7, 2024 hugo dersim

PANEL: 09:00-11:00 “Why prisons were built and what they mean for political political prisoners” “Building prisons for dissidents” “Political prisoners around the world” Speakers: Dr. Jean-Pierre Restellini – Former member…

Human Rights, Prisons, War Crimes

REPORT OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN TURKISH PRISONS

November 16, 2022January 9, 2023 Centre Kurde Genève

This report is prepared by Kurdish Center for Human Rights. This report includes sensitive and confidential data of individuals. Please let us know in order to share or publish it….

Prisons, Reports, Turkey

The Kurdish Center for Human Rights was established in Geneva in 2000, according to the Suisse civil law. In response to the genocide, war crimes and human rights violations occurring across the Kurdish regions of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria.

The KCHR, as a non-profit organization of social utility, was born from the need to inform the European and Swiss people and the OHCHR on human rights violations against the Kurds via seminars and other dialogue platforms and to attend their meetings; to establish a dialogue with NGO’s, civil movements, associations, government and civil institutions.. Read More….