Four Kurds disappear after reporting to State Security in Qamishli
According to Kurdish Organization for Defending Human Rights and Public Freedoms in Syria – DAD, four citizens of Amuda were told to report to the State Security Branch in Qamishli city at 9.30am on Tuesday 14 September 2010. They have since not been seen, and no-one knows where they are, if there is a warrant for their arrests, or why they are being detained.
Those who have disappeared are:
1 – Luqman Hussein Ibrahim.
2 – Salah Saeed Sheikhmous.
3 – Abdul Ghafoor Hussein Hussein.
4 – Saad Furman al-Hassan. Read more
Mohammed Saadoun – trial postponed again
According to Kurdish Organization for Defending Human Rights and Public Freedoms in Syria – DAD, the trial of Mohammed Saadoun was postponed again on 15 September. He was not produced at Court.
The trial was held again on 19 September when he was brought to court. His defence lawyer, Mustafa Osso who is Chair of the Board of Trutsees of DAD, announced that his client pleads ‘not guilty’.
The case was adjourned to 3 October 2010
19 September 2010
Another hunger striker collapses
Another Kurdish hunger striker collapsed yesterday at. 06.30 am and was rushed to Bispebjerg Hospital. Wahib who are in the 20s experienced dizziness, rapid pulse and heart trouble. After an initial health check and an Echocardiography of his heart doctors have decided to keep him overnight for further observation, but is probably out of the hospital later in the day.
Wahib and most of the hunger striker Kurds are heavily influenced and highly attenuated after 10-day hunger striking in a tent at Christiansborg castle space by the Danish parliament.
Hunger strike which action started 14th September 2010 will continue until the authorities realize the danger of deportation by force to Greece and Syria. Several of the hunger-striking asylum seekers have been in Greece for longer period without where their cases were never ever treated, and therefore were totally left to themselves.
Although the EU Court of Human Rights has halted some deportations to Greece, there is still a big group of them are still to be deportation to Greece, and therefore we demand an immediate halt to all deportations to that country.
The asylum rejected Kurds insist on not returning to a dictatorship that oppresses and denies its minorities, and deprive them of their universal cultural and social rights.
A country that disregards UN conventions on human rights and democracy and therefore severely criticized by many international organizations as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.
We urge the authorities to recognize and realize the danger posed by the planned deportations to Syria / Greece pose to our security and lives.
The hunger striking Kurds in Denmark
24 September 2010
Syrian Kurds: A Minority Amid Regional Changes
Kurds are the largest ethnic minority in Syria constituting 9-10 % of the total Syrian population. They are populated in north and north eastern parts of Syria. Unlike the Kurds in Iraq, Iran and Turkey, Syrian Kurds have not adopted insurgency as a method to gain cultural and political rights. And, although they sympathized with the Kurdish insurgency in the neighboring countries which contain larger populations of Kurds such as Turkey and Iraq, Syrian Kurds have not sought separation from the Syrian state. In 1962, close to 200,000 Syrian Kurds were stripped of their citizenship. The Syrian authorities claim that those Kurds came from Turkey, and therefore they are not Syrians. Read more
Hunger striking Kurds collapse
20-09-2010
We have tried in vain to call out the Danish authorities to reconsider/review our cases and as a last resort have now gone on hunger strike. One of our comrades have been admitted to the Rigshospital Trauma Center after having thrown up blood yesterday, but he is now out of the hospital and has re-joined the hunger strike at the tent in front of Denmark’s parliament at Christiansborg Slotsplads, now reaching day 7. Read more
The Kurdish Policy Imperative
Kurdish politics may no longer be dismissed as the isolated grumblings of tribal militias or leftist insurgents. The new prominence of the Kurds in the affairs of the Middle East and Turkey demands attention.
Events in the past 40 years have transformed the profile and potency of the Kurds, whose influence is critical to the future of Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey. Kurdish social and political dynamism affects these key states to the extent that managing the ‘rise of Kurdistan’ has become an enduring feature of Middle East politics. Read more
Kurdish Deportees’ Hunger Strike Surpassing Four days
Update on the Kurds on Hunger Strike in Denmark from the organising committee – 18 September 2010
Twenty-eight Kurds from Syria are now on the fifth day in front of the Danish parliament, Christiansborg Castle Square. Many in the group tell about mistreatment and torture by the Syrian regime
In a tent at Christiansborg Castle Square the Kurds from Syria have been on a hunger strike since Tuesday, 14 September. The group hunger strikes to stop the deportations by the Danish authorities into an unknown fate.
“We will continue the hunger strike until we are heard,” said Kek Ibo, spokesman for the Kurds. “If they are deported to Syria, they will all be greeted by persecution, imprisonment and torture, and therefore we have no other option than to try to let our voices be heard in Denmark and urge Danes to support our humanitarian action. Read more
Hunger strikers TO DEATH
We hereby announce the world’s press that 30 people has started on unlimited hunger strike to protect our own and our families’ lives for the imprisonment, torture, repression, and especially death.
We went into action from Tuesday 14th September 2010, at. 12.00 at Christiansborg Castle Square in Copenhagen. Please read on for more information.
We have fled from one of the worst dictatorial regimes in the world and have sought asylum in one of the leading democratic countries, Denmark. Read more
Kurdish activist Abdelkarim Hussein was released and has applied for asylum to UNHCR in Turkey
According to Gemyakurda.net, a website that focuses on Kurdish news in Arabic language, Kurdish activist Abdelkarim Hussein was released on 2 September 2010 after an order was made prohibiting him from leaving Syria unless he has the consent of Political Security in Aleppo.
Abdelkarim Hussein was told that he must report to Political Security in Aleppo within 24 of his release however his family feared he would be detained again like Khaled Kengo, who was rearrested by the State Security Branch in Qamishli. Abdelkarim Hussein managed to leave Syria secretly, and fled to Turkey across the border, arriving on 8 September 2010 where he applied to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for international protection.
Abdelkarim Hussein had been forcibly removed from Norway on 19 August 2010 and was arrested at Damascus International Airport. He was transferred to the Political Security Branch in Damascus. There were calls from civil society and human rights organizations in Syria and Norway not to deport him for fear of being arrested, but the Norwegian authorities continued to forcibly deported him to Syria. Read more
Mohamed Ramadan, Manal Ibrahim, Furman Hussein, Muhammad Saadoun in Court in Syria
The individual second military judge in Aleppo sentenced Mohamed Ramadan to five months imprisonment, in case no. 7027 of 2010. Mohamed Ramadan is from Kobani, and was accused of incitement to conflict between communities and various elements of the nation, in accordance with Article 307 of the Syrian Penal Code.
A military magistrate in Aleppo found Manal Ibrahim guilty of the crime of belonging to a political organization, in accordance with Article 288 of the Syrian Penal Code, which aims to partition off part of Syrian territory and annexed it to a foreign country in accordance with Article 267, and transferred her case to the Military Criminal Court in Aleppo. Read more
