At three o'clock (3:00a.m.), this morning, while they were all sleeping, Cyprus Police armed with "fire extinguishers", attacked the tents of "Kurdish Refugees" who have been protesting since May 17, 2010 in front of the European Commission in Nicosia. They were protesting against a decision that was released by Cyprus authorities, that they will deport about a hundred Kurdish Refugees back to Syria.
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SYRIAN KURD ENCOUNTERS DEATH UNDER TORTURE
We at the Canadian-Kurdish Association for Human Rights, INC. are expressing our strong disapproval of the use of "torture" that lead to the "death" of Syrian Kurdish citizen, from Ain Arab/Kobani, tw...
an Lewis expresses the UK Government’s deep concern about Kurds in Syria
Ivan Lewis, Minister of State from the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office has responded to the news about the killings at the Newroz event al-Raqqa on 21 March 2010. He expressed his deep concern to
Pier Rustum is released
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 writer Pier Rustum was released on 27 ...
Abdul Hakim Bashar on the threats against him and his family
My daughter Vian, aged twenty-two went to renew her passport at the Immigration and Naturalisation Service in Hassaka province. She was told that she needed the consent of the Palestine Branch of Mil...
Last Updated ( Thursday, 06 May 2010 15:51 )
Read more...Anwar Nasso is released, three others still detained
Yekiti Media reports that on Thursday 22 April 2010 Anwar Nasser was released from Alfayh’a Branch in Damascus. The other three – Hassan Saleh,
Kurdish student arrested in Aleppo
Azad Abdul Razak Wali, a university student, was arrested by a security patrol in Aleppo on the afternoon of Sunday 18 April 2010. There was no warrant or other court order produced and he has remaine...
Demonstrations: Release Syrian prisoners of conscience- UK -London, Belgium – Brussels, Canada, Switzerland, France, USA – Sat 17 April 2010
April 17th marks the 64th anniversary of Syrian independence. It is likely to be a day of mixed celebration, for while the country may be independent, many Syrians cannot but acknowledge that they are...
Last Updated ( Tuesday, 20 April 2010 00:48 )
Read more...Activist from Sittar Women’s Federation arrested in Syria
According to Syrian Committee for Human Rights – MAD, Hediya Eli Yusef, born 1972, from Deyrik area,was arrested on 16 April 2010 by military security forces while she was visiting Hasse village in th...
Syria: Four Kurdish Yekiti Party members sentenced to 5 years in prison, one other person has disappeared
Harsh judgments of the Supreme State Security Court on four detainees from the Kurdish Yekiti Party in Syria
The continuing State of Emergency in Syria
Kurdish Committee for Human Rights in Syria al-Rased reports that Mohammed Salih Khalil, a member of the Political Bureau of the Democratic Kurdish Party in Syria al-Party appeared before the military...
Damascus Declaration: Save the life of Haitham al-Maleh!
The first court hearing of a new trial against the detained lawyer Haitham al-Maleh, started on Monday, February 22, 2010 before the first military individual judge in Damascus on charges of slanderi...
Kurdish dissidents arrested in Syria
Phil Sands, Foreign Correspondent
DAMASCUS // When a banned political party demanded autonomy for Syrian Kurds early last month, it was only a matter of time until arrests were made.
And, sure enough, o...
Another raid and arrest from a house in the Kurdish area of Syria
Human Rights Organization in Syria – MAF – reports that Musa Haj Ali, a Kurdish man was arrested by military security from his house, in the village of Gerki Legge near Romelan town in the Kurdish reg...
Ez al-Din Morrow – the latest Kurdish conscript to die in Syria
According to Syrian Committee for Human Rights – MAD, Ez al-Din Morrow, a conscript serving with 110 Brigade based in al-Qatifa near Damascus, died whilst on military training. His family was informed...
Last Updated ( Sunday, 27 December 2009 20:01 )
Read more...Kurdish child of 15 and man arrested, detained and disappeared in Syria
According to Syrian Committee for Human Rights – MAD, Kurdish teenager Shahab Othman, known as Iden, born 15 April 1994, aged 15 years old was arrested and detained after being summoned by Political S...
Amnesty International calls for Syria’s Supreme Security Court to be abolished
Amnesty International called for Syria’s Supreme State Security Court (SSSC) to be abolished as the trial of five members of the Kurdish minority resumed on Tuesday.
Syria: DI member Mr. Mustafa Ismail Arrested
The arbitrary detention of DI member Mr. Mustafa Ismail in Syria has caused great concern among our members worldwide.
Noori Ibrahim Sheilko arrested in Syria
According to Syrian Human Rights Committee – MAD – on 23 November 2009 at 4am, an armed patrol from state security division raided the home of Noori Ibrahim Shekho, a Kurdish man living in Sheikh Maqs...
Kurdish conscript Khalil Bozan Sheikh Muslim is one of the new victims of killings in mysterious circumstances in the Syrian army.
According to the Kurdish organization for the Defence of Human Rights and Public Freedoms in Syria – DAD, the family of conscript Khalil Bozan Sheikh Muslim were handed their son’s body on Tuesday 8 D...
Hunger strike in Syria ends
We understand that the hunger strike amongst political prisoners in Adra prison in Syria that began on 30 October 2009 was ended today. It lasted 40 days, and has apparently ended because negotiations...
New report about the arrest of Ahmed Mustafa (also called Pier Rustum)
There are a number of reports about the circumstances in which Pier Rustum was detained.
Three more Kurds are arrested in Syria
According to MAD Human Rights Committee in Syria, the political security forces arrested three Kurdish people in Qamishli in mid-November, for the second time:
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