Category: Report
In Iraqi Kurdistan, Court Convicts Journalists of Spying
IRBIL, IRAQ – An Iraqi Kurdistan journalist sentenced this week to six years in prison on charges of spying says he was tortured mentally and physically while under investigation. Freelancer Sherwan Sherwani was one of five journalists and activists convicted by an Irbil city court of “spying and organizing armed groups” against the government. The […]
Condemnation after Iraqi-Kurd journalists given 6 years in jail
Sentences spark outrage across the Kurdish region where press freedom has been in precipitous decline for some time. By Sofia Barbarani and Hakeem Dawd Qaradaghi Baghdad, Iraq – Iraqi Kurdish journalists Sherwan Sherwani and Guhdar Zebari were sentenced to six years in jail in a move that has been labelled “unfair and disproportionate” by press […]
Kurdish advocacy group lobbies Biden for reboot with Syrian Kurds
A pro-Kurdish advocacy group has hired its first lobbying firm to urge the Biden administration and the new Congress to keep the Kurds a priority when dealing with Middle East policy, lobbying news website Foreign Lobby Report said this week. New York-based nonprofit Justice for Kurds hired law firm Covington & Burlington “advocate for policies […]
Syrian Kurds hand Baghdad 100 alleged IS fighters
BAGHDAD: A US-backed Kurdish force in northeast Syria handed over 100 alleged Islamic State group fighters to Baghdad this week, a senior Iraqi security source told AFP on Sunday. The Iraqi fighters were being interrogated before being transferred to the judiciary, the source said. But an official with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) denied the handover […]
Two more families join anti-PKK sit-in in SE Turkey
Group of families in southeastern Turkey await return of their children abducted, forcibly recruited by terrorists Two more families joined the months-long sit-in protest against the PKK terror group in southeastern Turkey on Friday. Families of children abducted or forcibly recruited by the PKK terror group have been protesting for more than a year in […]
Child soldier recruitment flourishes amid coronavirus pandemic
More children could be pushed into joining armed groups in conflict zones as families face increasing poverty due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a top United Nations official warned Friday. The exact number of child soldiers is unknown, but in 2019 alone about 7,740 children – some as young as 6 – were recruited and used […]
Another crime by PJAK; an 18-month late announcement of an Iranian underage
The PJAK terrorist group, the branch of the PKK for Iran, has always announced the death of its Iranian members late. The PKK-affiliated Firat News Agency (funded by drug trafficking and money laundering), just doing propaganda and publishing the news of PKK deaths, has reported the death of Iranian PKK members for many times, but […]
Deir ez-Zor countryside | SDF storms house of leader’s brother of regime-backed “Tribesmen Army”
Deir ez-Zor province – Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR activists say that the Syrian Democratic Forces raided the house of a member of Al-Shaytat clan in the town of Al-Kashkiyeh in Deir ez-Zor countryside, in an attempt to arrest him, but he managed to escape. It is worth nothing that the targeted person is […]
Iranian Kurdish families repeatedly deceived and wandered
As the Iranian Kurdistan Human Rights Watch (IKHRW) reports confirm by quoting local sources in Kurdistan province, Iran, some extremist and separatist groups active in the border areas of Iran, using the neighboring countries as a base for their destructive activities, continue to provide their armed men by deceiving and abducting the children while these […]
PKK and Organized Elimination: The Case of Sakine Cansiz
Ethnic cleansing, physical elimination and mass killing the opposition and violent and brutal repression of critics, Ocalan-centerism, police-like approach in controlling and managing group members, severe censorship, kidnapping, marriage prohibition, recruiting women and children for military and security affairs and even as suicide-bombers, using the women and girls in affairs beyond their capabilities, drug trafficking, […]