HUMAN RIGHTS

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• Colombian social leader Yaneth Mosquera survives bomb attack 

  Besides leading the "Woman with Courage" foundation, Mosquera is the Popayan region’s Africa community council coordinator.
• Lawyers demand release of their colleagues on death fast 

  Imprisoned lawyers on death fast, Ebru Timtik and Aytaç Ünsal have been transferred from Silivri prison to the forensic department. Colleagues in Istanbul demanded their immediate release.
• Lawyers take the contact ban with Imralı to the ECtHR 

  The Turkish Constitutional Court has rejected the lifting of the ban on contact with Abdullah Öcalan and his three fellow prisoners on Imrali. The defence team has now taken the case to the European Court of Human Rights.
• UN: peaceful assembly is a fundamental human right 

  UN Human Rights Committee published interpretation on the right of peaceful assembly.
• HRW: Turkey's police and watchmen involved in torture 

  “Turkish authorities should immediately investigate these credible allegations of serious abuse and hold those responsible accountable," said deputy program director at Human Rights Watch.
• IHD says prisoners are at risk of torture and harassment 

  Among the issues are those related to the right to health particularly in prisons in Central Anatolia where the regulatory requirements of the prisoners and international agreements signed by Turkey are not met.
• Women prisoners expose rights violations in Sincan jail 

  Pressures on political prisoners in Turkey and Kurdistan jails continue to increase. Sick prisoners in Sincan Women's Closed Prison are not transferred to the hospital.
• Behrouz Boochani granted asylum in New Zealand 

  Kurdish journalist and writer Behrouz Boochani spent more than six years in Australian immigration detention on a small island in the Pacific. Now he has been granted asylum in New Zealand.
• PAJK calls for other methods of struggle than hunger strike 

  Berbihîv Amed of the prison committee of the women's party PAJK calls for resistance methods other than hunger strike, saying that the struggle must be shifted outside instead of hunger strikes in the prisons.
• Mother of Çiçek Kobane calls for action for her daughter 

  The trial of YPJ member Çiçek Kobane, who was abducted to Turkey by Islamists last October, will resume in Urfa on Tuesday. Her mother appeals to human rights organizations to stand up for her.
• Police attack Saturday Mothers at the 800th week of action 

  Turkish police have prevented Istanbul's Saturday Mothers from demanding justice for their missing relatives in Galatasaray Square. The vigil was to be held for the 800th time today.
• Prisoners in Osmaniye expose new violation of rights 

  Violation of rights continued in Osmaniye T Type 2 Closed Prison.
• Two more prisoners join hunger strike in Aksaray jail 

  Two more prisoners have joined the hunger strike in Aksaray Prison. It was learned that the pressure and violations against prisoners continued.
• Concern growing for killings of social leaders in Colombia 

  The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) expressed its concern about the killing of social leaders, human rights defenders, and former guerrillas in Colombia.
• ECtHR convicts Turkey over the closure of TAYAD 

  The dissolution of the association for mutual aid and solidarity with the families of prisoners and convicts in Adana breached the Convention, the Court ruled.
• WHO warns about heavy impact of Covid-19 on indigenous peoples 

  In Latin America, Peruvian, Ecuadorean, Colombian, and Bolivian Indigenous communities face medical supplies scarcity and the lack of governmental preventive actions against the virus.
• 59 bodies recovered from Lake Van 

  After the sinking of a refugee boat on Lake Van at the end of June, 59 bodies have been recovered so far. They are refugees from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran.
• The Human Rights Association celebrates its 34th anniversary 

  The Human Rights Association (IHD) celebrates the 34th year of its foundation.
• Iran: Ten years imprisonment for Kurdish teacher 

  In Sinê in Eastern Kurdistan, Kurdish teacher Zara Mihemed has been sentenced to ten years in prison by an Iranian "revolutionary court" for "activities against national security".
• IHD Çevirmen says violation of rights in prisons increased 

  Nuray Çevirmen, a member of the Human Rights Association (IHD) council, drew attention to the violations of rights in prisons.
• Two Kurdish political prisoners executed in Iran 

  According to the information provided by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), Kurdish political prisoners, Sebir Şêxzade and Diyako Resulzade, were executed on the night of July 13.
• Peace Mothers call on people to stand up against isolation 

  The Peace Mothers Assembly held a press conference at the Human Rights Association (IHD) Istanbul Branch to call for an end to the isolation imposed on Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan and the violations of rights in prisons.
• Three prisoners on hunger strike in Osmaniye prison 

  In Osmaniye, three political prisoners have been on hunger strike for a week to demand medical treatment. One of them has had shrapnel in his leg for four years, the injury he sustained in the Nusaybin resistance.
• Actions in Istanbul and Ankara for ill prisoners Gömi and Yakşi 

  The actions demanding the release of ill prisoners in Istanbul and Ankara were dedicated this week to ill prisoners Kemal Gömi and Yusuf Yakşi who are in serious condition.
• The situation in Turkish prisons 

  With the coronavirus pandemic, the situation in prisons in Turkey has dramatically deteriorated. Preventive measures are inadequate, and rules of distance cannot be observed.