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Turkish Court Curtails Writer’s Travel
n the same month that a Turkish Court sentenced Zehra Doğan, artist and journalist, to almost 3 years in prison for a painting, an Istanbul court has reaffirmed the travel ban on writer Asli Erdoğan in the ongoing war against Freedom of Expression the Turkish State is currently engaged in
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TURKEY HUNGER STRIKES: DIALOGUE BEGINS
Dialogue has begun between prison authorities and the hunger-striking Kurdish prisoners held in in Edirne High Security Prison in the northwestern province.
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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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ON A DAY THIS WEEK, IN MARCH, 2012. Adrienne Cecile Rich
In a day this week, the 27th March, 2012, at her home in Santa Cruz, California, the American poet, feminist and social critic Adrienne Cecile Rich died
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Adrienne Rich: “Defy the Space That Separates ”
When David Lehman asked me to undertake a volume, I was dubious — about the title and its implications, about the “catchment area”
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NORTHERN KURDISTAN: NEWROZ WELCOMES MORE POLITICAL PRISONERS ON HUNGER STRIKE
the countless Kurdish political prisoners held in Turkish jails, 26 of whom have been on hunger strike since early February
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KURDISH NEWROZ CELEBRATED: RESIST!
The message from YBŞ and YJŞ draws attention to the ongoing hunger strikes of Kurdish political prisoners across Turkey’s jails that the world is, apparently, at present ignoring
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ISRAEL GUILTY OF “CRIME OF APARTHEID” IN PALESTINE – U.N. ‘SAYS’…
The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), launches a new report ‘Israeli Practices towards the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid’ in Beirut
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HOLLAND: TWO RIGHTS MIGHT MAKE A WRONG?
the extreme right-wing (anti-Islam anti-EU anti Immigration) Party for Freedom of Geert Wilders (“the Dutch Trump”) has not, apparently, followed in the wake of Donald Trump
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NO END TO THE SILENCE: human rights situation in South-East Turkey
Further details emerged on the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Right’s concerns at Turkey’s war
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