Deported Kurd arrested and disappeared — Schäuble bears some of the responsibility!
Göttingen/Bielefeld, 05.10.2009: Kurd deported to Syria arrested and disappeared for a month – Schäuble bears some of the responsibility!
Following the disappearance without a trace of a Kurd who was deported from Germany to Syria and who was arrested on arrival, the Society for Threatened Peoples STP (Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker GfbV) in Göttingen has raised serious charges against the German Minister of the Interior, Wolfgang Schäuble. “In spite of urgent warnings of the torturing state Syria Schäuble set his signature under a return agreement with the dictatorial regime and so decided over the fate of refugees seeking protection like that of Khalid Kanjo”, criticised the STP chair, Tilman Zülch. “How can it happen that a German Minister of the Interior gives his hand to a dictator who allows dissenters to be cruelly tortured? We demand the immediate suspension of the agreement!” Read more
EU to sign partnership with Syria this month (October 2009)
October 11, 2009 by sks
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We are extremely concerned by the news that Syria is being welcomed into partnership with the EU at a time when the abuse of Kurds in Syria is deteriorating day-by-day, as recorded in reports that can be found on this website:
The European Union will sign a partnership deal with Syria later this month, a diplomat told AFP Thursday, after years spent fretting over human rights concerns in Damascus.
“The deal is due to be signed with Syria on October 26 in Luxembourg,” said the diplomat, at a meeting of EU foreign ministers.
The EU and Syria first drew up a draft pact in 2004 but it was never signed by EU nations — with the Netherlands in particular demanding a clause allowing for its suspension in the event of proven rights abuses. Read more
Turkey, Syria’s new best friend
Just over a decade ago, Turkey’s army gathered on its southern border in anticipation of a war with Syria that was narrowly avoided. Just over a fortnight ago, the two neighbours signed accords allowing for visa-free passage between the two states. Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, now describes Turkey as Syria’s best friend, while Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s prime minister, publicly calls Syrians his brothers.
In what marks a significant turnaround in relations, not only have the prospects for conflict evaporated but also Damascus and Ankara find themselves in an ever closer integrated relationship with economic, political and even military ties strengthening each year. Similarly, Turkey has been instrumental in Syria’s recent international rehabilitation. Why, then, have relations changed so suddenly and who are the real beneficiaries of this alliance? Moreover, with Turkey’s Read more
YASA monthly report September 2009
Content:
• Kurdish student arrested at the Iraqi-Syrian border
• Another Kurdish conscript of the Syrian army dead
• Arrest because of the possession of a Kurdish party’s flyer
• Forced displacement of a family in Rumylan
• Lawyer not allowed leaving the country
• The fate of a Kurd deported from Germany remains
• Kurdish activists handed over to military court
• Long prison sentences for Kurdish activists
• Death of a Kurdish imprisoned
A call to demonstrate in Qamishli city at Monday
On the occasion of 47th anniversary of extraordinary census
And passing more than year on decree-law number “49″ 
At the fifth of this month we have the remembrance(47) of the extraordinary census in AL hesekah state in 1962 which dispossess thousands of Kurdish people from their citizenship just because they are Kurds, and today they are more than 300000 people suffering all this long years all kinds of injustices to solve this cause, but today we are sure that the regime is not serious to solve any cause of our people and our nationality human rights.
The regime still working by this racism law and other laws and steps of racial discrimination to harm the Kurdish areas.
6.10.2009 Urgent: Khaled Kenjo, a Syrian Kurdish man held incommunicado
October 9, 2009 by sks
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A Syrian Kurdish man has been held without access to the outside world for over three weeks after he was forcibly returned from Germany to Syria. He is in grave danger of torture.
Khaled Kenjo, aged 31, was detained by Syrian State Security in Qamishli, north-eastern Syria, on 13 September, 12 days after he was forcibly returned to Syria from Germany.
He was returned to Syria on 1 September after his application for asylum in Germany, which he made in 2002, was refused.
Syria Continues to Isolate People, Exert State Control
Syria apparently wants to emerge from years of isolation and build good relations with the international community, which is a must in a world moving more and more towards globalisation.
But while the country is supposedly opening up to western nations at an official level, the state continues to isolate its people, especially political activists and human rights advocates….
(SB No. 74, 03-Aug-09)
http://www.iwpr.net/?p=syr&s=f&o=355578&apc_state=henpsyr
Senior officials organise systematic suppression of dissenting voices
What is happening to press freedom in Syria? It is hard to know because many journalists refuse to speak either on the record or anonymously for fear of being identified by the intelligence services. The few accounts emerging confirm that press freedom violations by the authorities have become systematic…
Published on 15 September 2009
http://www.rsf.org/Senior-officials-organise.html
Syrian Kurd disappears, risks torture, 25/09/2009
A Syrian Kurdish man has been forcibly returned to Syria from Cyprus. He was detained on arrival, and has not been seen since: he has been subjected to enforced disappearance and is in grave danger of torture.
Berzani Karro, who is 20, is now known to have been arrested at Damascus airport on 27 June. His father has since made numerous inquiries with the Syrian authorities about his son’s fate and whereabouts, including at a number of detention centres and prisons around the country, but they have denied holding him in their custody. One State Security officer in the predominantly Kurdish north-eastern town where he lives, Amouda, told his father that his family name alone was enough to have led to him being arrested: an uncle with the same family name is a prominent member of the outlawed Kurdish Left Party of Syria (al-Hizb al-Yasari al-Kurdi fi Suria), and now lives in exile in Sweden.
Turkish PM says gov’t ready to change Constitution to save DTP deputies 3.10.2009
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ANKARA, Turkey, — Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday that the government is ready for a constitutional change to save pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) deputies from being hauled off by police to a court session in late December to answer questions regarding their allegedly separatist earlier statements. Responding to a question which indicated that the opposition views the government as the place to find a solution to the problem, Erdogan said if the opposition is ready, they are willing to go ahead with a constitutional change. “If they are ready, we can do it together. We can change the constitution, we can implement new laws. We can do whatever is necessary. |
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We do not support the prosecution of people because of their ideas. We are for a constitutional change,” Erdogan said, as quoted by the Anatolia news agency. Read more |
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