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Iran: Abusive forced veiling laws police women’s lives
Under the country’s compulsory veiling laws, women and girls – even those as young as seven – are forced to cover their hair with a headscarf against their will. Women who do not are treated as criminals by the state.
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From Kurdistan to Great Britain – Why hunger strikes matter
It is only with our knowledge and understanding of our own history that we can see the impact hunger strikes can have in the fight against oppression and tyranny. Our own history of struggle has been shaped and redefined by these acts. That’s why hunger strikes matter, from Kurdistan to Great Britain
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Arab Spring 2.0? You ain’t Seen Nothing Yet!
Almost a decade after the launch of the so-called “Arab Spring”, one of the most troubled regions in the entire world remains threatened by the prospects of facing a new wave of protests, demanding regime change
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With the spirit of the hunger strikers to the end of Turkish fascism
After 200 days of incomparable historical resistance, the hunger strikes in Kurdistan, Turkey and Europe have been declared over today
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Kurdish activists called off hunger strike following Öcalan’s message
Thousands of prisoners and activists around the world were on hunger strike demanding the end of the isolation against Abdullah Öcalan
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Ireland: Housing “Catastrophe” – No Longer “Crisis”
Irish Parliament (Dáil) votes 36-60 to reject a Sinn Féin bill which aimed to insert a constitutional right to housing
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Lawyers visited Leyla Güven to convey Öcalan’s message to the hunger strikers
Öcalan’s lawyers have visited DTK Co-chair and HDP MP Leyla Güven who has been on an indefinite hunger strike for 198 days demanding the end of the isolation regime executed against Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan
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Asesinato del líder indígena Sergio Rojas en Costa Rica: carta de órganos de Naciones Unidas hecha pública
El asesinato de Sergio Rojas viene a interpelar a las autoridades costarricenses dadas las diversas advertencias hechas por un sinnúmero de organizaciones sociales y de derechos humanos en los últimos años
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Dareen Tatour’s Appeal Partially Accepted: Poem Is Not a Crime
An update on the ongoing struggle of Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour by Marcia Lynx Qualey of Arabit.org
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Iran – Protest amid Darkness
This week saw more confrontation in Iran when students in Tehran organized a protest against the regime’s insistence that women wear mandatory headscarves in public
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Lawyers respond to Ban on visits with Ocalan Lifted
On 16 May 2019, the Minister of Justice of Turkey Abdulhamit Gül made a statement declaring that the ban on lawyers being allowed to visit with their client Mr. Abdullah Öcalan has been lifted
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Remembering the Nakba – building Democratic Confederalism
On the 15th May 2019 we write to remember the struggle in Palestine and to call for building democratic confederalism all over the Middle East
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Arundhati Roy: A U.S. Attack on Iran Would Be “Biggest Mistake It Has Ever Made”
“Over these last few years, given the wars it has waged, and the international treaties it has arbitrarily reneged on, the U.S. Government perfectly fits its own definition of a rogue state”
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Cuba says Trump’s claim that it controls Venezuela is a lie
Cuba’s government has hit back at President Donald Trump’s latest threat to implement a “full and complete” blockade after accusing the Caribbean island of “controlling Venezuela”
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Grupo Internacional de Contacto: Declaración de San José sobre Venezuela
El pasado 7 de mayo, el Grupo Internacional de Contacto (GIC) se reunió en la capital costarricense: se trata de una iniciativa diplomática liderada por la Unión Europea (UE) y 8 de sus integrantes, lanzada en enero del 2019
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Roque Dalton, poet, communist revolutionary
May 10, marks the anniversary of the assassination and death of the Salvadorian poet and revolutionary Roque Dalton
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Avvocati confermano incontro con Abdullah Ocalan
Dopo 8 anni di permessi di visita negati, gli avvocati del leader kurdo Abdullah Ocalan hanno potuto incontrarsi con lui nel carcere di massima sicurezza di Imrali lo scorso 2 maggio
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Iran – More Darkness
Ramin Hossein Panahi was a Kurdish militant, sentenced to death in January 2018 by the Iranian regime. Ramin, and two other Kurdish prisoners, Zanyar Moradi and Loghman Moradi were executed on Saturday, 8th September 2018
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“We Shall Overcome”. Pete Seeger on What Would Have Been His 100th Birthday
It was 100 years ago, May 3, that the late folk singer and activist Pete Seeger was born. In 2004, Seeger came into the Democracy Now! Watch the full interview and Democracy Now’s full archive of interviews with Seeger
Read MoreTurkey – Hunger Strikes. HDP writes letter to the international community on death fasts
Peoples’ Democratic Party vice co-chair Hişyar Özsoy wrote a letter to the international community regarding the 15 political prisoners who have turned their hunger strike into a “death fast”
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