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By the Editors: The glorious ‘Arab Spring’ toppled some dictatorships and haunted others with the sceptre of people power. It also reverberated across Kurdistan, raising now the prospect of self-rule for Kurds in west Kurdistan and last year inspiring citizens in semi-autonomous south Kurdistan to revolt against our unjust rulers. Following the horrors of Saddam,…
By: International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran: An Iranian court has upheld the death sentence for Zanyar Moradi, who was previously convicted of murdering the son of the Marivan Friday Imam. His father, Eghbal Moradi, called the sentence illegal in an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. “My son and…
By Firat News Agency: Iranian authorities have allegedly lifted the death sentence imposed on Kurdish woman activist Zeyneb Jalalian. Jalalian’s lawyer Dr. Mihemed Serif stated that Iranian authorities had after a long-standing silence turned the death sentence into imprisonment. Bookmark on Delicious Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments…
By Amnesty International: Iraqi Kurdish authorities must immediately launch an independent investigation into attacks on those with links to pro-reform protests, Amnesty International said today after a human rights lawyer was shot. Karwan Kamal, a lawyer defending the protesters in the city of Sulaimaniya, was directly hit and two others were hurt when a gunman…
By Heman Mahmud: Human rights are those fundamental rights and legitimate freedoms accorded to human beings in the world. Examples of these basic rights and freedoms, which are contingent on the rights granted to the individual in any given society, include the following: civil and political rights such as the right to life, the right to…
By Shwan Zulal: It is more than a month since the protests in the Kurdistan Region were quelled by security forces. Since then the military presence has eased off in the towns and cities but a larger-than-usual military presence can still be felt on the outskirts of the cities. The protests flared up in February,…
Editorial by Mufid Abdulla: The letter by Falah Mustafa Bakir to the head of Human Rights Watch (HRW) is part of a Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) public relations exercise. Written on behalf of the KRG prime minister, it seeks to repair damage done to the government’s international reputation by media coverage of the KRG’s harsh crackdown…
