Justice for Kurds statement on the Erbil attack, February 15, 2021

Once again our Kurdish friends in Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, are paying a high price in their struggle for their freedom and ours. Rockets rained down Monday (February 15) on the city, which remains one of the front lines against barbarism. The chief target was the airport where the international coalition’s forces are stationed, but some of the fire fell on a residential area. The toll: one civilian dead...


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Global Voices: Nearly a hundred Kurdish activists detained by Iran’s security forces in 2021

With the turn of 2021, the Islamic Republic of Iran has unleashed the latest chapter of repression against its Kurdish population, carrying a wave of arbitrary arrests targeting Kurdish civil society activists. According to reports, since the beginning of 2021, at least 91 Kurdish citizens, including human rights activists, environmentalists, and artists, were arrested or, in other words, “disappeared by security forces,” in different cities from Tehran to Sanandaj,...


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