Northern Kurdistan: Kurdish artist Rojda received 20 months imprisonments under the charges of “propaganda for an illegal organization”. The verdict is based on the song “Heval Kamurano” that the artist performed on a festival in Kurdish capital of Diyarbakir last year.
Rojda is one of 160 artists who had been invited to a meeting with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on 20 February to discuss the Kurdish question. However, she had previously announced not to attend the meeting.
The Kurdish singer Rojda performed the song ‘Heval Kamuran’ which means ‘my comrade Kamuran’ in two different concerts at last year’s Diyarbakır Culture and Arts Festival. During the performances there were posters of the Kurdish national leader Abdullah Ocalan as well as the Kurdistan Con-federal System (KCK) flags