Category: News

Amnesty International has revealed that a teenager was executed in Iran after being convicted of the rape of another boy, the first confirmed execution of a juvenile offender in the country this year. The organization, which has been carrying out extensive research into the situation of juvenile offenders on death row in Iran, found that Hassan…

HRANA ─ Following the gathering of a group of citizens of Tabriz in protest to the published article in the “Tarhe No” newspaper, a number of protesters were arrested and transferred to an unknown location. Reports indicate the widespread presence of troops and anti-riot vehicles in the city. According to the report of Human Rights…

Looking at successive statements by Iranian authorities against the Kurdish political parties, PJAK responded to the allegations raised by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. “Iran has always tried to show how domestic opposition is dependent on foreign countries.” said PJAK Assembly Member Amed Şaho. Majid Arjmandfar, the senior commander of the Revolutionary Guards, lately claimed that…

Following the coup attempt of July 15 in Turkey, the Kurds are worried about the conditions Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan imprisoned in Imrali island is under and demand he be allowed to see his family and lawyers at once. For this, a series of campaigns have been launched by Kurds, mainly throughout Kurdistan and…

HRANA ─ Two Kolbers with the names of Burhan Elem Hulu and Mostafa Mehrpur were killed by border patrol in Chaldoran border and three others were severely injured. According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), 5 Kolbers and residents of Showt village were injured or killed by direct fire from border…

According to Firat News Agency, on Saturday morning 26 July, a group of Kolbers 1, in Berde Panî of Serdeşt trapped in ambuscade of Iranian security forces. Security forces opened fire on Kolbers and seized goods and equipment of Kolbers. In contrast, people of Bêwran (a village of Serdeşt) attacked police station and got their…

KCK Executive Council Co-Presidency released a statement about the coup attempt in Turkey. The statement said: “There has been a coup attempt by persons whose identity and purpose is yet not clear. It grabs attention that this attempt comes at a time when Tayyip Erdoğan will reportedly assign generals close to himself during the military…

JINHA, AMED ─ Two women, who promised each other that they would never leave alone each other in every area of life on the lands they were born, fought until the last moment in order to fulfill their promise. Axîn and Zeryan met in Botan region last time. They wrote their names in Botan resistance by fighting…

According to Kurdistan Strategic Research Center website LEKOLIN.ORG , the ID and location information of 9 counter-guerilla gang units working for the Turkish Intelligence Agency (MIT) and Parastin (KDP’S intelligence agency) in Duhok, Hewlêr and Sulaymaniyah have been exposed.   NETWORK OF MIT AND PARASTIN AFFILIATED COUNTER-GUERILLA GANGS News of Parastin and MIT’s training of…

JINHA, MÊRDÎN – Women harvested the first products of the project natural farming, they sell the products by taking them to market dominated by men with purple handcarts as second step. Nuda Women’s Center members, who carry out their works within Qoser Municipality, harvested the first products of natural farming which put into practice in…

Striking information on the arson of KDP (Kurdistan Democratic Party) and Rudaw TV offices in Hewlêr came to light. People arrested by the PUK (Patriotic Union of Kurdistan) affiliated intelligence agency Zanyari confessed that they were tied to the KDP, and received special training on such attacks in the camps jointly established by the Turkish…

The statement recalled that forests are burning again in several provinces of Bakur (North Kurdistan) since June 2016, noting that these forest fires are occurring in areas where governors have declared no-go zones for the population and military operations are conducted. The Ecology Movement called on all activists and organizations in Turkey and abroad to…

HDK-Europe (HDK: Peoples’ Democratic Congress; in Turkish: Halklarin Demokratic Kongresi) has launched a petition against the deals between the EU and Turkey, primarily the immigration deal, with a press conference held in Germany’s capital Berlin. Activists have gathered in the ‘Haus der Demokratie und Menschenrechte’ for the campaign with the slogan “No to the dirty deal…

HRANA NEWS AGENCY ─ During Ramadan in different wards of Evin Prison, the stores were closed and two meals Suhur1 and Iftar2, at a distance of more than seventeen hours, are served for prisoners. This method has created a lot of problems for non-Muslim prisoners, non-religious and the ill prisoners. Imposing restriction is while the prison food…

One person carrying out border trade was killed during the attack of Iranian soldiers in the Giwêzilê village of Serdeşt on Tuesday. One more person was killed during the protests of the murder, and clashes in the region continue. According to ROJ NEWS AGENCY, the Giwêzilê village of Serdeşt has been under the blockade of Iranian…

JINHA, KOBANÊ ─ Women, who welcomed the Leader Abdullah Öcalan with open arms on July 1, 1979 when he passed to Rojava Kurdistan before the military coup of 12 September 1980, describe him. One of these women Emîra Eluş stated that Abdullah Öcalan always read books and she said, “He loved the children. Sometimes, he…

ANHA – The Executive Body in Democratic Society Movement showed its surprise at the recent statements by Staffan de Mistura UN Special Envoy to Syria, saying that the Kurds represent only five percent of the total Syrian population, the Body considers this statement distorting and dwarfing “perhaps unintentionally” to the fact and the existence of…

KCK (Kurdistan Communities Union) Executive Council Co-Presidency has released a statement offering condolences to the families of dozens killed in Istanbul airport attack and wishing a speedy recovery to all those injured. KCK underlined that the massacre was perpetrated by ISIS but it was the AKP government that was actually responsible, saying; “Because of its…

NEWS CENTER, Ceren Karlıdağ / JINHA ─ Two women named Bahar Ada and Saadet Demir began to march to say, “There are Kurds” by presenting a declaration to UN countries after the first siege in Cizre. Bahar said, “The world is a body. When a finger hurts, all body suffers. Today, the world is sick…

JINHA, ISTANBUL ─ Monna Le Yeuc’h from the delegation of European Grassroots Antiracist Movement made evaluations on the visibility of human rights violations in Turkey from Europe. Monna came to Istanbul with the delegation in order to follow the case of Chris Stemphson. Monna said, “The violations in Turkey are invisible in Europe.” Monna Le Yeuc’h from…