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Dindar Zebari: PKK is trying to distort Kurdistan Region’s image
Dindar Zebari, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) ‘s Coordinator for International Advocacy, told a press conference on Monday that the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) group interfered with the recent student protests in Sulaimani. “The PKK has started a policy of distorting the Kurdistan Region’s image,” Zebari said. “In the students’ protest in Sulaimani, the PKK […]
Syrian Kurds in Qamishli protest recruitment of teenage girls by YPG/PKK
On Sunday, nearly 30 people gathered outside a UN building in the city of Qamishli to demand action after a number of girls were reported to have been recruited into fighting, some of them allegedly by force. The protesters carried banners saying: "Bring back our children" and "Child recruitment sows panic in the heart of mothers."
Death in the Channel: The stories of 10 of the Iraqi Kurds that died in the perilous journey
The names and stories of 10 people who died in the Channel, including a mother and her three children (photo above) Luke Harding in Dunkirk, Nechirvan Mando in Ranya, Iraqi Kurdistan and Martin Chulov Sat 27 Nov 2021 15.54 EST (The Guardian According to his friends, Harem Pirot was an excellent swimmer. In the summer […]
Iranian Kurdish refugee dies on the border with Belarus
A Kurdish asylum seeker from the town of Salas Bawajani, in Kermanshah provinc, has died on the border between Belarus and Poland of frostbite. According to a report received by IKHRW, on Monday, November 22, 2021, a 25-year-old asylum seeker, identified as Bakhtiar Musazadeh, from the town of Salas Babajani on the Belarusian-Polish border, died […]
Lahur Talabany threatens his rivals in a fiery video statement
Lahur Talabany, recently dismissed co-chair of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), condemned on Friday the “assassination” of a police commander close to him by security forces in Ranya city in Sulaimani province the previous day. He threatened that he could “open the doors of hell on our enemies,” in reference to his rivals in […]
Michael Arizanti: PKK and Its Systematic Child Soldier Recruitment
Thousands of children are reportedly serving as fighters in the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) conflicts in Turkey, Syria, Iran, Iraq and the Kurdistan Region. These boys and girls, some said to be as young as 8 years old, may fight on the front lines, participate in suicide missions, and act as spies, messengers, or lookouts. […]
Unborn child of Kurdish migrant buried in Polish Tatar cemetery
BOHONIKI, Poland, Nov 23 (Reuters) – In a tiny white coffin, the body of an unborn child that died in the womb of its mother as she tried to cross from Belarus into the European Union was buried in a Muslim cemetery in north-east Poland on Tuesday. In Islam, unborn children are also given funeral […]
Students protests in KRG continue
Students from universities and institutes across the Kurdistan Region protested on Tuesday (November 23) for the third day demanding the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) resume issuing their monthly stipends. The students gathered outside universities and institutes in Sulaimani, Erbil and Halabja governorates, as well as in Soran, Raparin and Garmian. One protester outside of Sulaimani […]
۱۵-year-old Kolber commits suicide; The latest achievement of Iran’s border guards!
According to the Iranian Kurdistan Human Rights Watch and local sources in Paveh, Hawraman, a 15-year-old teenager named Soroush Rahmani committed suicide due to poverty and a few days after several of his mules were killed. Soroush engaged in Kolberi, a form of semi-legal cross-border smuggling that takes places on the Iraqi-Iranian border. Kolberi is […]
LOST in PJAK: Adel Brooki Milan (Part 11)
In a special note to the Iranian Kurdistan Human Rights Watch, a former PJAK member investigates the forced disappearance and death of Iranian Kurdish teenagers in the PJAK / PKK terrorist group, and provides the watchdog with specific information about “Adel Brooki Milan.” It is worth mentioning that pictures and personal information has been obtained […]