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Los Desaparecidos – The Disappeared Turkish-Style
What must it be like (Mr. President), when the State forces its way into your life, your space, your home, seizes your children, takes them away from you and locks you up?
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ASHRAF FAYADH Never Forgotten!
once more…just to tell the world that Ashraf Fayadh is NOT forgotten, along with the many other prisoners of conscience whose only crime was to offend the easily offended
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Zehra Doğan Sentenced!
the Mardin 2nd High Criminal Court has sentenced Zehra Doğan to 2 years, 9 months and 22 days imprisonment for the painting
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“Displaced and Dispossessed”. Turkey Condemned for Forced Exodus of Kurds from Diyarbakir
Tuesday, 6th December 2016, Amnesty International release their report “DISPLACED AND DISPOSSESSED: SUR RESIDENTS’ RIGHT TO RETURN HOME”.
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The Death Penalty For Drug-Related Offences
33 countries or territories continue to impose the death penalty for drug-related offences, resulting in approximately 1,000 executions annually. Drug-related offences account for the majority of executions carried out in some countries and are mandatorily punished by death in a number of States
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Qatari Poet Muhammad Al Ajami, Serving 15-year Sentence, Pardoned by Emir
Qatari poet Muhammad al-Ajami — who was the target of an international solidarity movement because of his 15-year prison sentence — has been pardoned
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Ashraf Fayadh: Hell on Earth
There is much should concern us here as well as reminding us of the turbulent life of the Turkish communist poet Nazim Hikmet who spent most of his life either in prison or in exile
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