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Human Rights Watch, 2017 WORLD REPORT
Human Rights Watch (HRW) have recently launched their World Report 2017 – Events of 2016
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FRONT LINE DEFENDERS. The Human Rights Defenders Report 2016
The Dublin-based HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS launched their Annual Report on Human Rights Defenders at Risk in 2016, January 5th 2017
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Asli Erdoğan. TEMPORARY RELEASE PENDING TRIAL
After over 4 months Turkish writer and human rights activist Asli Erdoğan was released from Bakirkoy women’s prison in Istanbul
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Grace Gifford. On a day this week, the 13th December, 1955
the 13th December, 1955 in Dublin city, in Ireland, the Irish artist, nationalist and republican Grace Gifford died after a lifetime watching the failed struggle for an Irish Republic to be born
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Turkey – Purge in Kurdistan Continues: Artist and Journalist Zehra Doğan Brought to Court
Friday, 9th December 2016, Zehra Doğan, award winning journalist, painter and poet and Jinha Womens News editor was scheduled in court today
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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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Aslı Erdogan, WRITER TO BE TRIED AS “TERRORIST”
Aslı Erdoğan… as of November 25th held for 98 days (along with 70 year old linguist, Necmiye Alpay, held now for 86 days) in Istanbul’s Bakırköy women’s prison in Istanbul
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Abdellatif Laabi an Introduction
Abdellatif Laâbi, poet, writer, and translator was born in Fez, (a French Protectorate since 1912), in 1942
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On November 15th, Margaret Atwood writes to Asl? Erdo?an in a Turkish prison: “you are not alone”
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CHINA: Communist Party Legislates on Film Industry
Just recently, Monday November 7th, the 150 member Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress approved the new legislation regulating the growing film industry in China
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