Two weeks later, he remains in prison awaiting trial. He was among 80 people arrested on accusation of having links with an organisation said to be affiliate to the banned Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). Muharrem Erbey is a highly respected human rights lawyer, and...
Selahattin Demirtas is co-president of the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party of Turkey (BDP), the fourth largest political party in the country. The BDP is not formally tied to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has been in armed conflict with the Turkish...
PEN fears that he is held in violation of Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which Iran is a signatory, and calls for his immediate and unconditional release. According to PEN’s information, Mohammad Soleimani Nia, aged...
According to the information received from DI Defenders in Iran, Mr. Gulperi has been transferred, without prior notice, from Oroumieh Prison to Semnan Prison in Northern Iran, where he may be at imminent risk of execution. Mr. Gulperi was arrested on Sepemenber 27th,...
Bagdad/Erbil/Washington/Brussels, 19 April 2012: The political standoff between Iraq’s Kurds and the government in Baghdad has left pressing disputes over oil and territories unresolved, intensifying the likelihood of conflict. Iraq and the Kurds: The...
