Following the murder of MIT official Osman Köse in Hewlêr, South Kurdistan, on 17 July 2019, the KDP imposed an embargo on Maxmur Refugee Camp using this incident as a pretext.

For over ten months, nobody has been allowed to leave the camp, including seriously ill people, pregnant women, students and those working in the surrounding area.

Civaka Azad (Center for Kurdish Public Opinion Studies), one of the most important Kurdish institutions in Germany, will organise a panel on Thursday, 7 May to draw attention to the human drama in Maxmur. The panel, which will be attended by German human rights defenders and politicians, will take place online due to the measures taken to counter the coronavirus outbreak.

The panel will start with the speeches of Heike Geisweid and Besra Güler from the German-Kurdish human rights association MAF-DAD who visited the camp last March.

Then it will be the turn of Die Linke party federal parliamentary Zaklin Nastic and Emine Gözen from the Kurdistan Peace and Hope Initiative Association, to speak. In addition, camp officials from Maxmûr will participate in the panel live and provide information about the latest situation.

The meeting will begin at 7 pm on Thursday 7 May and can be followed at this address:

https://civaka-azad.org/mexmur/