Category: Report
German court tries ISIS member on Yazidi genocide
An Iraqi man believed to have belonged to the Islamic State group went on trial in Germany on Friday accused of genocide and murdering a child belonging to the Yazidi minority who he held as a slave. Taha al-Jumailly, 27, also stands accused of crimes against humanity, war crimes and human trafficking in the case […]
Farzad Kamangar, a victim of PJAK internal disputes
Throughout the history, the PKK and its satellite branches have always committed human rights abuses. Child abduction, kidnapping, and recruitment are the constant practice of PJAK and the PKK. The purpose of these actions is to cover up their terrorist operations. PJAK’s target community, unfortunately, is low-income families. PJAK has sacrificed the children of these […]
Raqqah civilian died from torture in SDF prison
Ali Hasan Sheikh Muhammad, born in 1977, from Raqqah city, was a father of three small children. He was arrested on 6 July 2015 by Syrian Democratic Forces at the Marash Binar crossing in Ein Arab city, while he was travelling with other civilians to pass the border to Turkey. He was trying to flee […]
Abuse of status in Sulaimani
Following the arrest of a Peshmerga Major General during a police intervention in Sulaimani on Tuesday (May 5), three police officers were wounded when the man’s relatives opened fire on a police station in the city’s Bakhtiari neighborhood. Police Chief Aso Taha said that the incident began when police officers responded to a local traffic […]
Second ISIS wife on trial in Germany
Court proceedings have begun in Germany against a woman who stands accused of crimes against humanity, membership of a terrorist organization, and the enslavement of a 13-year-old Yezidi girl. The case against Omaima Abdi, a German-Tunisian, came to court after she was tracked down by a Lebanese journalist, Jenan Moussa. Abdi is the wife of […]
North Syria’s farmland remains unplanted
Before the Syrian civil war, 40% of Syria’s total wheat production came from Hasakah governate. Throughout the Syrian civil war, this area changed hands many times. Part of the governate is currently in hands of the PYD/PKK administration, other part of the governate is in hands of the Turkey-backed rebel opposition. Estimates show 440,000 hectares […]
Ocalan: No one should build their future plans over me
Abdullah Öcalan, who has been serving a life sentence in a prison on the İmralı Island since 1999, was allowed a phone call with a member of his family for the first time in 21 years on April 28. During the phone call, Öcalan focused on the Kurdish unity in the Middle East, as he […]
۱۰th anniversary of the murdering of Sardasht Osman
Today is the tenth anniversary of the murdering of Sardasht Osman. He was an Erbil-based journalist and was killed for his 348-word satire titled “I am in love with Barzani’s daughter”, in which he compared how vastly different his life would be as a member of the Barzani family, notorious for its vast wealth and […]
۸-year old brutally murdered in Duhok province
An 8-year old Syrian child of Arab origins has been found brutally murdered, hit on the head with a big block of concrete. He was found yesterday near the Domiz mosque, located close to refugee camp Domiz, in the Zummar area of Duhok province. Duhok province is one of the areas under KDP control and […]
PKK’s European wing continues to ignore lockdown measures
With the novel coronavirus causing a humanitarian crisis across the globe, and severe lockdowns throughout most of European countries. Social gatherings have been forbidden for two months now in most West-European countries, in an attempt to prevent the spreading of the virus. One of the European cities that has been hit the hardest, is Paris. […]