IRAN/ROJHELAT: NEWS BRIEFING, 28 November – 31 December 2022
For more of the latest Kurdish news, see these sources:
ANF English https://anfenglishmobile.com/
Hawar News https://hawarnews.com/en/
CHRI https://www.iranhumanrights.org/
Iran Human Rights https://iranhr.net/en/
Kurdistan Press Agency https://kurdpa.net/en
Kurdistan24 https://www.kurdistan24.net/en
Rudaw https://www.rudaw.net/english
Al-Monitor https://www.al-monitor.com
KHRN http://kurdistanhumanrights.org/en
KMMK https://kmmk-ge.org/
Hengaw https://hengaw.net/en
Esta https://esta.krd/en
Heyva Sor launches campaign “East Kurdistan is Not Alone”
https://www.heyvasor.com/en/rojhilat-kampanya/
NEWS
1. Javanrud; Burhan Eliasi has been killed by the repressive forces
2. Iran top court accepts protester’s appeal against death sentence
3. Security forces fire on mourners in Kurdish town in western Iran
4. Iran court sentences Kurdish writer to over five years in jail
5. information is available on the fate of Kurdish activist Shahram Farhadi
6. ‘Jin, Jiyan, Azadi’ uprising continues in Iran and East Kurdistan
7. Demonstration for Belgian held in Iran calls for his release
8. The death sentence of Shakir Behrouz, a Kurdish political prisoner from Urmia, was reversed by the first branch of the Iranian Supreme Court
9. General strike in Iran and East Kurdistan
10. Four IRGC members killed in southeast Iran – IRNA
11. Iran judiciary urges swift carrying out of sentences
12. Activists from Rojhilat detained in Turkey at risk of deportation
13. Ilam; Sonia Sharifi is the first child sentenced to “enmity against God” in the recent protests
14. Iran removed from UN women’s rights body after US push
15. Jailed Iranian director receives award from Vienna Film Festival
16. IRGC intelligence continues to detain five Yarsani activists in Kermanshah
17. Iran carries out second execution over protests: Judiciary
18. Outrage as Iran carries out first hanging over protests
19. 500+ Executions in 2022 in Iran; 4 Men Executed for “Collaborating with Israel”
20. Iranian-Kurdish player transfers to Dalkurd
21. Iran Human Rights Warns of Imminent Risk of Protester Executions/ At Least 3 Children Facing Death Penalty Charges
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WOMEN’S ALLIANCE FOR KURDISTAN, IRAQ AND SYRIA – NEWS BRIEFING: September-October 2022
https://peaceinkurdistancampaign.com/activities/womens-alliance-for-kurdistan-iraq-and-syria/
1. How the death of a Kurdish woman galvanised women all over Iran
2. Iran launches airstrike against Kurdish group in northern Iraq
3. Gunshots and blasts heard at Mahsa Amini protests in Iran
4. Iran’s repressive regime is being rocked by a song
5. Zhina Mahsa Amini: The Story of a Kurdish Woman in Iran
6. Webinar: The Kurdish Question in Iran After Amini’s Murder
7. Assasination of Nagihan Akarsel
8. Feminist journalist of Turkish origin gunned down in Iraqi Kurdistan
9. Women Life Freedom – the revolutionary call of the Kurdish Women’s Movement
10. Woman, Life, Liberty: A Slogan One Hundred Years in the Making
11. Meral Çiçek on Nagihan Akarsel and the origins of Jin, Jiyan, Azadi
12. Jîna ‘Mahsa’ Amini Was Kurdish And That Matters
WOMEN’S ALLIANCE FOR KURDISTAN, IRAQ AND SYRIA – NEWS BRIEFING: July-August 2022
1. Turkey should face international court over Yazidi genocide, report says
2. We need a practical handbook to build a bottom-up democracy
3. Women Defend Rojava: An attack on one, is an attack on all!
4. World Women’s Conference in solidarity with the women of Rojava
5. Jiyan Tolhildan – 10 years of women’s revolution
6. Remembering Jiyan Tolhildan
7. Remembering the sacrifices of our revolutionary women on the 10th Anniversary of the Rojava Revolution: Rojava and South Africa
8. Why Boycotting Turkey should be a Feminist Demand
9. Podcast: Women and War
10. The Kurdish Women’s Movement: History, Theory, Practice | Dilar Dirik, Elif Sarican
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