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‘Disappeared’ prisoner of conscience, Dawit Isaak, wins World press freedom prize
Eritrean writer and journalist and Swedish citizen (for all the good it does him) Dawit Isaak, has been awarded the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2017. The $25,000 award is named after Guillermo Cano Isaza, a Colombian journalist who
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Asli Erdoğan. Turkish Court Curtails Writer’s Travel
In the same month that a Turkish Court sentenced Zehra Doğan, artist and journalist, to almost 3 years in prison for a painting, an Istanbul court has reaffirmed the travel ban on writer Asli Erdoğan in the ongoing war against Freedom of Expression the Turkish State is currently engaged in
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TURKEY HUNGER STRIKES: DIALOGUE BEGINS
Dialogue has begun between prison authorities and the hunger-striking Kurdish prisoners held in in Edirne High Security Prison in the northwestern province.
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NORTHERN KURDISTAN: NEWROZ WELCOMES MORE POLITICAL PRISONERS ON HUNGER STRIKE
the countless Kurdish political prisoners held in Turkish jails, 26 of whom have been on hunger strike since early February
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KURDISH NEWROZ CELEBRATED: RESIST!
The message from YBŞ and YJŞ draws attention to the ongoing hunger strikes of Kurdish political prisoners across Turkey’s jails that the world is, apparently, at present ignoring
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ISRAEL GUILTY OF “CRIME OF APARTHEID” IN PALESTINE – U.N. ‘SAYS’…
The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), launches a new report ‘Israeli Practices towards the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid’ in Beirut
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HOLLAND: TWO RIGHTS MIGHT MAKE A WRONG?
the extreme right-wing (anti-Islam anti-EU anti Immigration) Party for Freedom of Geert Wilders (“the Dutch Trump”) has not, apparently, followed in the wake of Donald Trump
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SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS. STILL THE SCHOOL FOR KILLERS?
Global Witness: “Honduras, the most dangerous country per capita to be an environmental activist for the last five years, with 101 deaths between 2010 and 2014”
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Ashraf Fayadh, poet… NOT FORGOTTEN
Ashraf Fayadh, imprisoned stateless-Palestinian poet, is this year’s joint winner (with Malini Subramaniam, an award-winning Indian investigative journalist) of Pen International’s 2017 Oxfam Novib/PEN Awards for Freedom of Expression
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The Murder of Sakine, Fidan and Leyla TO BE CONTINUED..?
Ömer Güney, the only suspect in the assassination of Sakine Cansız, Fidan Doğan and Leyla Şaylemez in Paris on 9 January, 2013, died on December 17, 2016
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Human Rights Watch, 2017 WORLD REPORT
Human Rights Watch (HRW) have recently launched their World Report 2017 – Events of 2016
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Turkey Condemned for Forced Exodus of Kurds from Diyarbakir
Tuesday, 6th December 2016, Amnesty International release their report “DISPLACED AND DISPOSSESSED: SUR RESIDENTS’ RIGHT TO RETURN HOME”.
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For Asli Erdogan
On November 15th, Margaret Atwood writes to Asl? Erdo?an in a Turkish prison: “you are not alone”
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ANIMAL RIGHTS – ? – ANIMAL WRONGS
Cruelty perpetrated on animals by humans has to be the greatest kept ‘secret’ on the planet since the ending of the last ice-age approximately 150,000 years ago
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An End to the Silence!
The fact that the U.S. Justice Department did not respond to a request by the Chilean government and pressure from the Jara family for his extradition is an outstanding issue reminding the world of the involvement of the Nixon-Kissinger administration in these crimes against humanity and their simultaneous involvement in Operation Condor
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THE CIZRE REPORT
The report, compiled by the 4 HDP members who visited Cizre for 10 days after the blockade was lifted, collects the narrative from witnesses and attempts to document the list of atrocities perpetrated during the siege
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