Shahzavar Karimzadi The body of 37-year-old Karima Baloch, a Baloch activist, was discovered in a lake in Toronto, Canada, on 21 December 2020 after she went missing the previous day.Read More
Şerife Kalkan, mother of prisoner Rozerin Kalkan, spoke to Jin News regarding the hunger strikes in Turkish prisons and said, “We will back our children till the end.”Read More
A Munich court in Germany sentenced 10 Turkish activists who were convicted of accusations of supporting the TKP/ML (Turkish Communist Party – Marxist-Leninist.). Dr. Banu Büyükavcı is among those activists and was given a decision of deportation and sentenced to 3 years and 6 months. Büyükavcı spoke to Yeni Özgür Politika regarding the decision of […]Read More
Mehmet Akpolat (46) who has been in a Turkish prison for 27 years, has been held in a solitary confinement cell for 19 years in Siirt E Type Prison, in Siirt (Sêrt) city in southeastern Turkey. His mother Hanife Akpolat (73) talked to Mesopotama Agency (MA) on the difficulties her son and she have been […]Read More
Anna Campbell is believed to be the first British woman and eighth British citizen who was killed whilst fighting alongside Kurdish forces in Syria. Anna Campbell, from Lewes, East Sussex, was volunteering with the Kurdish Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) to join the Kurdish struggle in Rojava against the invasion by the Islamic State. She first […]Read More
Hediya Yusif, a Democratic Union Party (PYD) Executive Committee member, shared her assessment with Hawar News Agency about the third year of control by Turkish forces and allied Syrian opposition factions of Afrin (Efrîn) in northern Syria. Yusif stated that the attacks targeting the Medya Defense Zones, Sinjar and northern and eastern Syria are aimed […]Read More
The hunger strikes launched by political prisoners in Turkey – to protest against the prison isolation conditions imposed on Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan and the ill-treatment of prisoners across the country – have reached their 55th day. Solidarity hunger strikes also reached their 34th day in Makhmur (Mexmûr) refugee camp in Iraqi […]Read More
Two women from Aleppo in Syria – Şêrîvan Mihemed and Widad Helebî – who travelled to Afrin (Efrin) three years ago to support the resistance, have appealed to the international community to highlight what is happening there and have urged it to act against what they describe as “the occupation”.Read More
The wave of operations launched by Iranian authorities since 8 January targeting students and activists continues, reports Hawar Nes Agency.Read More
As the hunger strikes launched by political prisoners in Turkey to protest the isolation of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan reach their 54th day, the families of prisoners continue to share their messages of solidarity.Read More
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