Barbaric attack of Turkish government on peaceful Kurdish protesters in North Kurdistan

Today hundreds of thousands of Kurds were in the street in a peaceful protest against Turkish government's treatment of Kurds in turkey. The protesters were attacked by the Turkish government forces and police and many were injured, hurt, arrested and hospitalized

                                      

                                       

Kurdish Worker shot by the Iranian Government forces

A Kurdish Worker was shot by the Iranian government forces. Abas Rashidi that is from the village of Sardaw from the Kurdish city of Banah in East Kurdistan came under fire by the Iranian government forces.
Mr. Rashidi was injured badly and transported to the area hospital. Kurdish workers come under fire regularly by the Iranian government for unknown reasons.

A Kurd from Kurdish city of Bokan was shot and killed by the Iranian government for unknown reasons

On 6/12/2012 Tuesday, Ali Mohammed Amini son of Ibrahim resident of Gultapa village in Bokan in East kurdistan was shot by the Iranian military for unknown reasons. Mr. Amini was injured badly and transformed to hospital  and after couple of nights in critical conditions lost his life.

The reason for this shooting is still unknown.

Uknown reason for the death of a Kurdish soldiers in Iranian military

Mr. Tabib Hussieni member of Iranian military was Announced Dead couple days ago by the Iranian military officials. the reason for his death was announced and was listed as unknown .  after  informing the Family of Mr. husseni a price of 30 million riyals were announced to the family in exchange for the body of their loved one.
the Iranian Government forcefully requires all male to do certain amount of years in military. sadly the unknown reasons for death of specially Kurdish individuals in the military have been on the rise in the Iranian military. asking for money in return for their bodies is a new tactic by the Iranian government towards their families.

Mass movement of Iranian Military Into the Kurdish Areas

Islamic Revolutionary guards have been moving in large numbers into the Kurdish areas in the past couple days ago and have been covering the borders between South Kurdistan and East Kurdistan.
Kurdish Areas in Iran have always been filled with military personal and Iranian military have always been in the move in this areas since the creation of Islamic Republic of Iran, but recently this transfer of military have increased heavily.
Iranian military have orders the schools in many Kurdish cities to evacuate the building and put the building in the services of Iranian military, and completely close schools.

Turkish Government's activities against Kurdish freedom Fighters in Kurdish areas

According to The Kurdish Observer news agency, there has been a big increase of activities in the Kurdish areas by the Turkish government.

On Monday 5/13, In the early morning of Monday morning big amount of troops were moved into Gawar Area in North Kurdistan,with collaborations of Village Guards.

On Tuesday 5/14, there were clashes in 3 areas of north Kurdistan. those areas are Amed, Mush and Chawik. the  clashes have increased and been continuing due to large amount of Turkish troops transported to Kurdish areas and been backed by Turkish helicopters. in much, a lot of ambulances being seen to be going toward the clash areas.

On Wednesday 5/15, Turkish air plains once again crossed the borders into South Kurdistan and attacked the Kurdish freedom fighters on Gawar mountains.

the Turkish news agencies have reported casualties from these operations. amongst the casualties it was reported that 3 Turkish high commoners were killed.

source:http://www.rojhelat.info

Hunger Strike of kurdish political Prisoners in urmiyeh prison

According to Sources on the ground, in urmiyeh prison 3 Kurdish prisoners have been on hunger strike for the past 3 days and still continuing the hunger strike.
the names of prisoners on hunger strike are as followed:

• Jafar Goshwara known as Shaho
• Jahangir Bedawazah
• Amin Abdullahi

 these prisoners were arrested by the Iranian Government forces.

Halabja

‎24 years ago, today one of the biggest genocides against Kurds and humanity took place. 24 years ago Saddam's government used mustered gas bombs and massacred the people of kurdish city of halabca and killed 5000 innocent Kurdish women,children and men in matters of minutes.
RIP to all those that lost their lives and their families. Long live kurd and Kurdistan

Kurdish Prisoners executed and their body parts being sold by the Iranian Government

Iranian Government continue their arrest of activists, and the rate of these arrests are on the rise. these arrests in Kurdish populated areas are on the rise . Many times Kurdish activists have been sentenced behind closed doors and executed behind closed doors.  there are some reports that Iranian government forces after executing  the Kurdish political prisoners cut them to peaces for easier way of discarding them and sale their body parts: Heart, kidney, ect... to those that are in big need of these body parts. prices on these body parts are very high. recently there were mass graves that were found in Kurdish city of Sine full of bodies with cut off parts. after this mass grave was found the Iranian government closed the area and relocated the bodies .

unknown fate for 2 Kurdish Political prisoners in Iran

Iranian Government continues their arrest of activists in iran. many time the fate of those prisoners stays unknown.
Mr. Peyman Selewati was arrested 5 months ago  in Kurdish city of Sine by the Iranian government. the family of Mr. selewati have no news of him and his fate remains unknown.

Mr. Saed Senger, another Kurdish activist was arrested and spent 10 years in Jail. According to Mukriyan News agency on Sunday he was transferred to a unknown place by the Iranian government.

Another Kurdish worker killed by the Iranian government

A Kurdish worker by the name of Ibrahim Rasti that was 24 years old was shot and killed by the Iranian government military.
Mr. Rasti was one of the many in the group of Kurdish workers, the faith of other workers are unknown but when the Iranian government forces opened fire on the workers , Mr. Rasti was hit and lost his life immediately . Iranian government has been continuing such murders against Kurdish workers on a high rate.

Over 1023 Kurdish children are in Jail for Political Reasons in Turkey

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Bianet News: The Turkish Minister of Justice Mr. Sadullah Ergin, stated that the number of childern that are in turkish priosners for political reasons have increased from 17 in 2005 to 1,023 in 2010.

these data was released  based on BDP Deputy Buldan's request and she had asked about conviction that were on the grounds political activism in Turkish Criminal Law.the list and report that was  published shed a new light on the number of Kurdish children in prisons.

the numbers goes as stated below:

year	convicted	Acquitted
2005	17	78
2006	14	67
2007	47	97
2008	36	122
2009	1015	1144
2010	1023	857

The total numbers of Arrests and convictions for Men and women are as followed:

year	Men	Women
2005	2314	412
2006	3355	374
2007	5284	647
2008	5423	649
2009	8299	912
2010	8686	1206

The source for the Article and the numbers : http://www.bianet.org/english/children/136289-1023-child-political-convicts---dramatic-increase

President Barzani: Kurds will not kill or fight against each other anymore.

In a conference that took place in capital of South Kurdistan, President of Kurdish Regional Government (KRG), President Barzani stated that : Kurds will not kill or fight against Each other any more.

President Barzani also stated that : We have reached a point today that shows that Kurdish problem cannot be solved through policies of violence. Like every other people and groups, Kurds also have the right for self-determination. This right should be respected by everyone and the problem should be solved through peaceful ways.

2 Kurdish Workers shot by the Iranian government

Attacking Kurdish workers by the Iranian government continuing and is on the rise .  yesterday, a group of Kurdish worker were attacked  and 2 of them were injured and are in critical conditions .

those 2 workers that were identified as : Mr. Eyhan Kehrizi and Mr. Nezam Beshiri came under fire around the Kurdish city of Urmiyeh yesterday by the Iranian government.

they underwent surgery and currently are in critical conditions in Urmiyeh's central hospital.

15 More Kurds Arrested by the Turkish Government

Today 12 more Kurds were arrested in Kurdish city of Mersin by the Turkish Government. also, Kurdish observer reported that 3 Kurds were also arrested in Kurdish city of Wan.

Turkish Court charged the following Kurds with spreading propaganda. 

35 Kurds were arrested by the Iranian government in Kurdish city of Sine

Kurd watch organization in iran reported that today 35 Kurds were arrested . these arrests took place while Ahmadinijad's right hand man, Reza Rahimi the former governor of Kurdistan province returned to Sine.  these 35 people were all arrested at the same time as a group in hassan abad area of Sine in a house raid by the iranian secret police.

Sources did not mentioned any of the names beside Mr. Mehrdad Amir Vaziri . couple days ago, another mass arrest of mountain climbing group of Kurdistan by the Iranian government  took place.

7 Kurdish prisoners were relocated to a unknown place by the Iranian government

Kurdish observer stated that 7 Kurdish prisoners that  were in central prison of Kurdish city of Urmiyeh were relocated to a unknown place on Feb 14.
the names of those 7 Prisoners are as followed :

1. Habibullah Golperipur : Membership in Kurdish Political party
2. Eli Ehmed Suleyman : 14 years for membership of Kurdish political parties
3. Ehmed Temuyi :
4. Mustefa Eli Ehmed ; 6 years involvement in Kurdish political parties
5. Cehangir Badozade
6. Mustefa Kake Memi 
7. Yosof Rehmanipur: 5 years for involvement in Kurdish political parties

 the families of above prisoners are very worried about their conditions.

Turkish Tank injured a 70 years old Kurdish woman

Turkish military used tanks to attacked the Kurdish protesters in Kurdish city of Amed today and severely injured a 70 years old Kurdish woman .
Mrs. Aysha that is 70 years old was protesting along with many other Kurds was badly injured and it is being reported that she is in critical condition in hospital .

this is another example of human right violation by the Turkish military and Turkish government. such violations are taking place everyday and no human right organizations are taking any actions .

Executions are continuing by the Iranian government

Kurdish observer reported that another Prisoner was hanged in central prison of Iranian city of Zanjan. also, another prisoner was sentenced to death by the Iranian government in this city under the charges of burglary and threatening the security of the country.
it is important to mention that from the beginning of the year 2012 more then 52 prisoners have been executed by the Iranian government. it is being said that , there has been more executions behind closed doors and no information are available of those acts.

Human Rights violations report of 2011

You can get access to the 2011 human right violation report and statics by click on the following link and downloading the PDF.

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Another prisoner killed under torture after 23 years and another Kurd sentenced to death by the Iranian government

According to human right organization of iran and Kurdish observer another Prisoner was killed under torture of Iranian government forces in Gewhar dasht prison. Mr. Rahman Maqdooni was under torture for several hours and lost his life on Feb 5th.
Mr. Maqdonni was arrested 23 years ago and was held in prison all these time . he was 43 years old when he lost his life.

In Karaj Another Kurdish prisoner by the name of  Yones Aqayan that is one of the followers if Yarsan religious group was sentenced to death. this sentencing is another example of lack of religious freedom in Iran by the Iranian government.

Iranian government attcking Kurdish workers

Kurdish observer reported that The Iranian soldiers once again attacked the Kurdish workers on the many places on the borders of East Kurdistan.  in one of this attacks that took place yesterday in Hewraman area Iranian soldiers set ambushes for Kurdish workers on Nosud village. As a result of the gunshot 7 heads of workers’ mules were killed.

one important thing to know is that  Nosud village is strictly controlled by the military and such attacks on Kurdish workers happens very often in systematically orders from Tehran policies against Kurds..

31 Kurdish prisoners remain in custody of Turkish Government in kurdish City of Batman

Turkish government arrests of Kurdish people is continuing, and  Tuesday saw another round of raids and arrests in Kurdish city by the Turkish government. 12 Kurds plus 2 of the firat news agency's distribution staff by the names of shafak chelen and Fatma Demir were arrested and jailed for involvement with Union of Kurdistan Communities in Kurdish city of batman. also, in another round of raids and arrests several other kurds and Gulsen Aslan was amongst them in raiding her office.in this raid her belongings including disks, flash drivers and many things were taken by the Turkish government.

in another round of raids on Feb 4th over 40 Kurds were arrested which more then 30 of the are still remained in custody. these arrested were taken place systematically in 7 Kurdish cities

Turkish government soilders open fire on houses of Innocent Kurds

Kurdish observer reported that there are many clashes between Kurdish freedom fighters and Turkish government forces. in one of the clashes between Kurdish Freedom fighters and Turkish government soldiers on Thursday in Cele district of kolemrge in north Kurdistan, the Turkish military open fire on all Kurdish houses in that district and even attack innocent peoples houses with rackets and there were no reports of any injuries