HUMAN RIGHTS

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• Quantum on trial – Özgür Amed 

  Kurdish journalist Özgür Amed writes about the background of the prison sentence given to him without any concrete evidences.
• IHD President: Mr Öcalan should be able to contact his organisation 

  The President of the Human Rights Association of Turkey (IHD), Öztürk Türkdoğan, said the Turkish government should take steps appropriate to the joint declaration made with the HDP.
• IHD releases report on right violations in 2014 

  IHD General President Öztürk Türkdoğan said that right violations in Turkey have recorded an increase in parallel with the government's increasing tendency of authoritarianism for the last several years.
• Relatives of the missing in Kurdistan call for justice 

  Relatives of people who disappeared after being taken into custody during the 1990s and human rights activists continued their protests in Amed, Batman, Cizre and Yüksekova yesterday.
• ‘Join ISIS’ propaganda in Van children’s prison 

  Following the ill treatment and torture of child prisoners in the Van M Type Prison, another scandal has emerged. Children have told their lawyers that people in the prison are trying to indoctrinate them by telling them to join ISIS.
• IHD: Children in prison continue suffering ill treatment, abuse and rape 

  The Human Rights Association (IHD) in Turkey has issued a statement highlighting the ill treatment, sexual abuse and rape of children in prisons in Van, Şakran, Pozantı and Sincan and called for children’s rights to be protected.
• HDP calls on international agencies to take action against executions in Iran 

  People’s Democratic Party vice co-chair Meral Danış Bektaş has called on international agencies and institutions to take urgent action against death sentences and executions in Iran.
• AFAD camp on Armenian mass grave 

  It has emerged that a state-run AFAD camp set up near Suruç for refugees from Kobanê is located on the site of a massacre of Armenians in 1895.
• Rape suspects cleared while Pozantı child victims face life terms 

  While charges against prison officers accused of raping and sexually abusing children in the Pozantı children’s jail have been dropped, 4 of the victims are going on trial and facing life sentences.
• Saman Naseem and Efşarî brothers executed 

  Political prisoners Saman Naseem, and brothers Ali Efşarî and Habîbullah Efşarî in Urmia prison have been executed by the Islamic Republic of Iran.
• Mother tongue education for Kobanê children in Erciş 

  KURDİ-DER provides education and psychological support for children from Kobanê who came to Erciş following the attacks of the ISIS gangs.
• AI: Death row juvenile offender at risk of secret execution 

  Saman Naseem was transferred from Oroumieh Central Prison to an unknown location on 18 February 2015. His whereabouts are currently unknown.
• Kurds in Japan protest against Iran 

  Kurdish people in Tokyo have protested the decision to execute the Kurdish political prisoner Saman Naseem, who is accused of being a member of PJAK in Iran.
• Protest in Stockholm to stop the execution of Saman Nesim 

  A demonstration was held yesterday (Wednesday) at 20:30 in front of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Stockholm to protest death sentences in Iran and to stop the execution of Kurdish political prisoner Saman Nesim.
• Six political inmates in Urmia prison at risk of imminent execution 

  Six political inmates in Urmiye prison are at risk of imminent execution.
• IHD: 2,082 violations of children's rights in Kurdish region in 2014 

  Human Rights Association (IHD) Amed Branch has disclosed the 'Report of 2014 on Violations of Children's Rights in Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia Regions' at a press conference in the main Kurdish city.
• Child and sick prisoners in Van suffer repression 

  HDP (Peoples' Democratic Party) MP Özdal Üçer tabled a parliamentary question denouncing violations of rights of child and sick prisoners in Van M Type Closed Prison, F Type Prison and Gürpınar K1 Type Prison.
• Iran Human Rights organization on President Rohani's remarks 

  Iran Human Rights organization on President Rohani's remarks
• Four years ago Ceylan was killed 

  Four years ago Ceylan was killed
• Human Rights abuses in Turkish prisons 

  Human Rights abuses in Turkish prisons
• IHD releases Report on Prisons in the Kurdish region 

  IHD releases Report on Prisons in the Kurdish region
• Over twenty thousands rights violations registered 

  Over twenty thousands rights violations registered
• In Turkey, who will be left to defend the victims? 

  In Turkey, who will be left to defend the victims?
• Appeals for two young Kurds intensify as death nears 

  Appeals for two young Kurds intensify as death nears
• FARC Women guerrillas write to PAJK women in prison 

  FARC Women guerrillas write to PAJK women in prison