Tag: Kurdish political prisoners

The main motivation behind Abdurrahman Gök’s detention since April was his photographing of the police shooting of Kemal Kurkut during ...

In the past week, Iran has executed a Jin Jîyan Azadî (Woman, Life, Freedom) protester, a Kurdish political prisoner, a ...

An 81-year-old Kurdish woman is at risk of returning to prison a year after Turkey’s Forensic Medicine Institute (ATK) assessed ...

Kurdish prisoner Nesimi Kalkan, who has been in prison for 30 years and is listed as a sick prisoner by ...

Kurdish activist Mahmut Kardaş recently ended a 44-day ‘death fast’ staged to protest his detention in a Turkish prison. Kardaş ...

The Administration and Observation Commissions in Turkey’s prisons have extended time served for at least 271 prisoners by up to ...

Five Kurdish citizens have been on a hunger strike for six days in the Central Prison of Ilam, a Kurdish ...

Robin Fleming Political prisoners have once again become the center of attention in Turkey as the ruling Justice and Development ...

Iran: Two Kurdish political prisoners passed away in one 24-hour period after being subjected to severe torture while in detention, ...

Iran executed a Kurdish political prisoner, Hemn Mustafai, at dawn on Wednesday at Sanandaj Central Prison in Kurdistan Province. The ...