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• JIN TV on air 

  Today, the women's channel JIN TV went on air.
• KJK: Women will play an important role in Parliament 

  The KJK said AKP fascism is still strong but it has lost pieces.
• Jin TV ready to go on air 

  Jin (Women) TV channel will begin broadcasting on Saturday 30 June.
• Kurdish Women’s Festival in UK dedicated to YPJ martyr Campbell 

  The Festival will take place in London on 6 and 7 July.
• Another Yazidi woman murdered in Afrin 

  Fatma Hamke was 66 years old.
• Young Women’s Union established in Raqqa for the first time 

  The slogan of the meeting was: "We will destroy the slavery mentality with the struggle of the women".
• Women prisoners harassed in prison 

  Women prisoners subjected to ill treatment and harassment in prison.
• 72 year old Dinler: They are the true terrorists! 

  72 year old Fatma Dinler said when she was taken to the police station, the officers who brought her in told the others, “Look, we got a terrorist for you.” Dinler, who has heart and blood pressure issues and diabetes, was held without food or water.
• Syrian Women's Academy begins new education term in Tabqa 

  In six months, several women graduated from the Academy and are now working.
• 72 years old Fatima Dinler released from prison 

  The woman had been arrested on Sunday after casting her vote
• 72-year-old woman jailed in Mardin 

  An elderly Kurdish woman was imprisoned due to an approved prison sentence.
• Thousands join the Zilan Women’s Festival in Dortmund 

  Thousands of women joined the festival on the eve of the elections in Turkey.
• From the plains of al-Bab to the mountains of Kurdistan 

  Gülbahar is one of seven children of an Arab mother and a Kurdish father. From the northern Syrian plains of al-Bab she went to the mountains of Kurdistan.
• Four more women and girls kill themselves in Iran 

  Four women and girls have committed suicide in Iranian capital Tehran and the provinces of Shiraz, Rafsanjan and Ahwaz.
• Kurdistan women’s call against Turkish invasion 

  Women from three parts of Kurdistan condemned the Turkish state’s invasion attacks against Bashur and submitted a petition to the Kurdistani government and parliament. The women are calling on all to object to the invasion.
• Young Kurdish women go to Qandil to support Human Shields 

  The women oppose Turkey’s attempts to occupy South Kurdistan.
• Young women on their way to Qandil against the invasion 

  Members of Combative Young Women set out from 4 centers in Bashure (Southern) Kurdistan in the morning hours to visit the youth carrying out the human shield action in Qandil for the last 13 days against the Turkish state’s invasion attacks.
• Women’s workplace opens in Ayn Isa 

  The Rojava Revolution helped women reclaim their space and role.
• YPJ fighters: “We fight to liberate women” 

  YPJ fighters who participate in the Operation Cizire Storm against ISIS gangs say they fight for the freedom of all women, and Arab women in particular.
• Women’s Academy in Kobane: a project for women all over the world 

  Patrizia Fiocchetti and Carla Centioni were at opening ceremony of the Women’s Academy
• Women's Academy Silan opened in Kobane 

  An emotional ceremony to inaugurate the new Women's Academi in Kobane.
• Iranian human rights activist Nasrin Sotoudeh arrested 

  Well-known Iranian lawyer and human rights activist Nasrin Sotoudeh, who received the 2012 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, has been arrested.
• Syria Women’s Council opens office in Manbij 

  The decision is in line with the Congress decision to open offices all over Syria.
• Women from Afrin: We will resist until our home is liberated 

  Kongreya Star Afrin organization today declared through a press release in Fafin district of Shehba that the second phase of the campaign named “Women, rise up for Afrin” has come to an end.
• Jalaliyan: I will continue on my path 

  Imprisoned Kurdish woman Zeinab Jalaliyan wrote a letter on the Iranian state refusing her treatment and said, “On my own I am stronger than all of you. And I will continue on my path.