Arbitrary arrests among Kurdish college students in Syria

Kurdish Organization for Defending Human Rights and Public Freedoms in Syria – DAD, and Human Rights Organization in Syria – MAF report that a security services patrol arrested 2^nd year law student  Bhor Saleh Ahmed and two of his fellow students on 18 May 2010, after encircling their rented accommodation. The reason for their arrest is unknown.

A number of students at the University of Aleppo have been detained arbitrarily when they have been on a day out from university:

• Qaddar Jalal Kalash, 4^th year English language student
• Firas Abdul Aziz Rasho, 4^th year English language student
• Nawaf  Khalaf , 4^th year Arabic language student
• Abdullah Nazir Mohammed, 3rd year philosophy student
• Kaniwar Darwish, 4^th year philosophy student
• Yassin Abdul-Majid Mohammed, 4^th year philosophy student
• Heyvidar Mustafa, 3^rd year education student
• Sabah Abdul-Karim Ali, 2^nd year student from Deyrik studying at the Institute of Business Administration
• Zahid Hassan, a graduate in Fine Arts from Deyrik Read more

Kurdish media student arrested in Syria

Kurdish Organization for Defending Human Rights and Public Freedoms in Syria – DAD, and Human Rights Organization in Syria – MAF note with deep concern that Omar Osman Aleko, a 4^th year media student was arrested on the outskirts of Damascus in al-Assad villages, by a political security patrol on 8 March 2010.  His home was raided and his personal belongings were taken by the patrol in violation of the law. The patrol brought fear to local residents. Read more

Increasing numbers of Kurds banned from travelling outside Syria

It has been reported by Kurdish Organization for Defending Human Rights and Public Freedoms in Syria – DAD, and Human Rights Organization in Syria – MAF that the number of Kurds subject to a travel ban has increased in 2010, and new names were added without any reason being given.

Two of those affected:

• Abdel-Fattah Duherr, born in 1953, banned by State Security
• the late Akram Kanao, Chair of the Board of Trustees of the organization MAF. He was surprised a few days before his death to find that he was prevented from travelling. He was preparing a list of names of those in a similar position in 2010 Read more

Continued arrests of Kurdish college students in Syria

It has been reported by Kurdish Organization for Defending Human Rights and Public Freedoms in Syria – DAD, and Human Rights Organization in Syria – MAF, that Hussein Muslim Jarrad has been detained by a security service, however there is no information available about the reason for his arrest. He is a year 2 civil engineering student from Aleppo.

DAD and MAF strongly condemn Hussein Jarrad’s arrest, and we are deeply concerned about his fate. We call for these arbitrary arrests that take place outside the law to be stopped, as they are a flagrant violation of fundamental rights and freedoms that have been guaranteed by the permanent constitution of Syria in 1973, and also under the State of Emergency and Martial Law that has existed in Syria since 8 March1963. Read more

Kurdish man and son arrested by security patrol in al-Raqqa, Syria

Haji Hushek was arrested when an armed security patrol raided his home in the Mill area of al-Raqqa on Sunday 9 May 2010. The patrol surrounded his home and cordoned it off before it was stormed by heavily armed officers, who raided his belongings without a warrant to either enter or search the property.

Haji Hushek and his son Mohammed Haji Hushek were taken to an unknown destination that has not yet been disclosed. There is heightened security in the Kurdish area of al-Raqqa, where the security patrols roam the streets bringing fear to the residents.

There were increased waves of arrests and intimidation of Kurdish citizens in April 2010, and there were reports of detainees being subjected to significant levels of torture, both of the wounded as well as those who were not previously injured, to extract ‘confessions’ from Kurds that will place responsibility on the Kurdish population for the massacre that was actually planned and carried out by the security forces in al-Raqqa.

Media Institute of West Kurdistan Society – al-Raqqa

13 May 2010

Amnesty International report 2010/Syria – The state of the world’s Human Rights

Head of state: Bashar al-Assad

Head of government: Muhammad Naji al-’Otri

Death penalty: retentionist

Population: 21.9 million

Life expectancy: 74.1 years

Under-5 mortality (m/f): 21/16 per 1,000

Adult literacy: 83.1 per cent

The government remained intolerant of dissent. Critics, human rights defenders, alleged opponents of the government and others were detained, often for prolonged periods; some were sentenced to prison terms after unfair trials. Torture and other illtreatment remained common, and were committed with impunity; there were several suspicious deaths in custody. The government failed to clarify the circumstances in which prisoners were killed at Sednaya Military Prison in 2008 and, again, took no steps to account for thousands of victims of enforced disappearances in previous years. Women faced legal and other discrimination and violence. The Kurdish minority remained subject to discrimination, and thousands of Syrian Kurds were effectively stateless. At least eight prisoners were executed. Read more

Young, Kurdish, and jailed in Turkey

Review of the Turkish Government under the UN International Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)

NGO SHADOW REPORT FOR THE REVIEW OF THE TURKISH GOVERNMENT
UNDER THE UN INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION ON THE ELIMINATION OF ALL FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN (CEDAW)
Submitted by Kurdish Human Rights Project
May 2010
Kurdish Human Rights Project
11 Guilford Street
London WC1N 1DH

KURDISH HUMAN RIGHTS PROJECT
The Kurdish Human Rights Project (KHRP) is an independent, non-political, non-governmental human rights organisation and registered charity founded in 1992 and based in London, England.
KHRP is committed to the promotion and protection of the human rights of all persons living within the Kurdish regions of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria and elsewhere, irrespective of race, religion, sex, political persuasion or other belief or opinion. These states, which encompass the regions traditionally and currently inhabited by the Kurdish people and form the crossroads between East and West, are bound by numerous international laws regarding the respect of human rights. Yet, they have been the scenes of some of the worst human rights violations in the twentieth century and onwards; often combined with the failure of the international community to bring governments in the regions to account for their human rights abuses. Read more

URGENT ACTION Three men held incommunicado risk torture

Anwer Naso, Hassan Saleh, Ma’rouf Mulla Ahmed and Muhammad Ahmed Mustafa are all reported to have been brought before a military prosecutor in Damascus on 19 April. Anwer Naso was released without charge three days later, on 22 April, but the three others remain in detention apparently under investigation.

Hassan Saleh, Ma’rouf Mulla Ahmed and Muhammad Ahmed Mustafa, all senior members of the Kurdish Yekiti Party in Syria, which has not been legally authorized by the Syrian authorities, were arrested in late December 2009, together with Anwer Naso. They were held in solitary confinement for nine days by Political Security officials in al-Hasakah, north-east Syria, and interrogated, then transferred to Political Security’s al-Fayha’ branch in Damascus on 4 January, 2010. Read more

We strongly condemn Iran regimes criminal acts against Kurdish people

Early morning on the 09.05.2010,four young Kurdish prisoners,

Farzad Kamanger,

Ali Heidarian,

Farhad Vakili and

Shirin Alam Holi,were executed by Iranian regime by hanging in the Tehran’s’ Evin prison.

We as United Kurdish Association in NSW-Australia strongly condemn this brutal and criminal act by Iranian regimes against innocent Kurdish civilians. We call up on the world, especially United Nations, Human Right Organizations and international communities to act promptly to prevent another onslaught by the Iranian regimen against the innocent people of Kurdistan

United Kurdish Association of NSW– Australia

17 May 2010

http://www.ukansw.org

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