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Dareen Tatour’s Appeal Partially Accepted: Poem Is Not a Crime

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An update on the ongoing struggle of Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour by Marcia Lynx Qualey of Arabit.org

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Extrajudicial Killing Dims Hopes for Colombia’s Demobilized FARC

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Dimar Torres, a demobilized member of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), was shot just outside of Campo Alegre

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Öcalan’s lawyer: Isolation means war

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Lawyer Ibrahim Bilmez is one of the lawyer of Kurdish people’s leader Abdullah Öcalan, from Asrin Hukuk Burosu

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Open Letter to UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt

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Seven Kurdish political prisoners in Turkey have taken their own lives in the last three weeks

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Another Soul on IceTurkey’s Ongoing Attack on ‘Freedom’

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Ahmet Altan, 69 year old writer…is in cell in Silivri Prison, on the outskirts of Istanbul

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Turkish Police likely killers of Tahir Elçi

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Tahir Elçi, the Kurdish human rights lawyer, was shot dead in Diyarbakır, in Turkey’s Kurdish southeast (Northern Kurdistan), on November 28, 2015, while holding a press conference calling for peace in the region

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“A Difficult Year in Turkey”? You’re tellin’ me…

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International Observatory of Human Rights have added to the long list of the country’s human rights violations in their recent 2018 in Review: Human Rights Violations in Turkey

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“PKK IS NOT A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION!”

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Murat Güleryüz, human rights activist and Rojava Support campaigner has started a petition to the US State Department to have the PKK delisted in the U.S. as a terrorist organisation

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