Tag: Human Rights
Human rights groups have sounded the alarm over the Danish government’s plans to swap its controversial laws on “ghettos” that affect marginalized neighborhoods for tighter measures targeting “non-Western” residents. The Interior Ministry last week revealed proposed reforms that would remove the word ...
CLOSE to 10,000 people were forcibly pushed back across the Aegean Sea to Turkey last year by the Greek coastguard and the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex), according to a human rights monitoring ...
The European Court of Human Rights said Tuesday that Turkey violated a British artist’s freedom of speech by convicting him of “insulting” Recep Tayyip Erdogan when he was prime minister. It was one of several ...
After three harrowing years in Chinese re-education camps, Gulbahar Haitiwaji, a Uighur woman who had been lured back to China from France only to be arrested, interrogated and abused, recounts her ordeal in a just published ...
China has announced the ratification of an extradition treaty with Turkey, a text that Beijing wants to use, among other things, to speed up the return of certain refugees and Muslim Uighurs suspected of “terrorism”. ...
ISTANBUL — The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Wednesday for “immediate release” of a prominent Kurdish politician in Turkey, stating his more than four-year imprisonment was a violation of his rights ...
Behold the mighty European Union, second only to the U.S. in economic heft. But also witness what a minnow it is in world diplomacy. Is it any wonder the world’s hard-nosed autocrats and nationalists, practitioners of ...
If ethnic tensions in Turkey are reflected on the football pitch, then Amedspor and their Kurdish following are at the very centre of the field. The club represents the Kurdish-majority city of Diyarbakir in south-eastern ...
Turkish Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gul spoke out against the widespread practice of arbitrary detentions Friday, fueling speculation that Turkish philanthropist and civic activist Osman Kavala, who has been in jail for more than three years on a ...