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By Ramyar Hassani: On 21st November 21, 2013 president Viktor Yanukovych announced that Ukraine had suspended a trade pact and political association agreement between Ukraine and the EU which strengthened ties with the European Union and was instead seeking closer cooperation with Moscow. Following this announcement, the Ukrainian opposition expressed displeasure and peaceful protests –…
By Kamal Chomani: Twitter: @KamalChomani Masoud Barzani, president of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, delayed a planned visit to the United States in protest at the US listing the KDP and PUK as terrorists. But have not they perpetuated terrorism in the past? In reality this was just an excuse to hide the failures of…
By Meerain Baloch: Some years back a Punjabi lecturer at Turbat Residential College made a complaint to the paramilitary troops of the Frontier Corps (FC), formed totally of non-Balochs, that some Baloch professors had desecrated Islam by hanging rosaries on a picture of a monkey. The FC invaded a teachers’ hostel and arrested two Baloch…
By Human Rights Watch: Turkey’s Justice and Development Party government showed growing intolerance toward political opposition, public protest, and critical media during 2013, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2014. After the report went to press, government attempts to limit corruption investigations implicating ministers and the prime minister’s son further threatened justice…
By Dr. Amir Sharifi: An Open Letter My Last Column Dec 5, 2013. Dear readers, this is my last column! You may wonder why. If you had read my column, you would have known that I have been threatened, even beaten up once by ten hoodlums I have been the target of toxic smears and…
By Aram J Sabir: Strange! Even Anfal didn’t teach anything to those freedom fighters of yesterday. As result of practicing self-governance after 1991, the political atmosphere in the Kurdistan region (KR) was different to other parts of Iraq. This paved the way for journalism to develop further in the KR than in other parts of…
Peace in Kurdistan Campaign press release: The seventh hearing in a long-running trial against the legal representatives of Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) who is currently in talks with the Turkish government to resolve the 30-year-old Kurdish –Turkish conflict, will take place tomorrow. Bookmark on Delicious Recommend on Facebook Share…
By Ramyar Hassani: Just a few weeks before the inauguration of the new president, on August 3, 2013, a new wave of discussion, argument and contention was heating up. A few candidates were busy with nightly debates on the national TV channel – one of whom was to become the new president of Iran, Mr….
By Beyan Farshi: I never had the intention to be involved in politics. As far back as I remember, all kinds of negativities seemed to be hidden within politics: things like treason, inequality, captivity, imprisonment, war, killing, slavery, confinement, restraints and many more. However, as a Kurd you can’t escape from politics. Thanks to our…
Press Release by Amnesty International: Two death row prisoners from Iran’s Kurdish minority are at imminent risk of being executed after the Iranian authorities carried out 20 death sentences over the weekend, Amnesty International warned today. “This surge in executions shows that behind words and promises, the Iranian authorities continue to rely on state-sponsored killing,…
By Solin Hacador: International moral hypocrisy became obvious in the Syrian Civil War. Powerful countries advocate one kind of morality for human rights at home. This raises a question mark in my mind! If their policies of solidarity are morally good for them, why should they not be morally good for the international victims of…
By Beyan Farshi: It’s happened a lot, and in between many reminder notes have been overseen or lost through the centuries. Browsing through the lost reminder notes might reveal the unspoken truth, but the thing that most of us are aware of is the conspiracy of those silent suspicious souls who intended, and still do,…
By Dr Amir Sharifi: Kurdish Human Rights Advocacy Group and a delegation meet Ahmad Shaheed, the United Nations’ special rapporteur on human rights in Iran On July, 19, 2013 a Kurdish delegation consisting of the Kurdish Human Rights Advocacy Group (KHRAG) and Kurdish American Committee for Human Rights and Democracy in Iran (KACDHI) met with…
By Sharif Behruz and Zakarya Khezeryan: Canada’s government and opposition MPs voted on an NDP motion to condemn the massacre of thousands of political prisoners by the Islamic Republic of Iran in the summer of 1988, as a crime against humanity. This motion was not only a step towards honouring the memory of the victims, but…
