PEN International condemns a social media campaign started earlier this week to boycott the work of Turkish-Jewish writer and PEN Turkey board member Mario Levi. Levi s novels have been included on a list of Israeli products to boycott that has been circulated on...
ANF – SINJAR 22.07.2014 ISIS gangs attacking the village of Guhbel in the Yezidi region of Sinjar in South Kurdistan have been forced to retreat by the resistance of the villagers. Local residents have armed themselves to protect their homes and fields and begun...
15 July 2014 The Kurds in Syria have been under fierce assault from ISIS since 2 July but very little of what has been unfolding has been reported in the mainstream media and few if any comments have been made by British, European or American political leaders. As the...
Amnesty International is encouraging people to take action on behalf of Zeynab Jalalian, a Kurdish prisoner who was sentenced to death by Kermanshah Revolutionary Court, a verdict that was later changed to to life in prison ”Zeynab Jalalian has had eye problems for a...
Amnesty International has obtained details of a horrific raid in which 15 civilians, including seven children, were summarily killed on 29 May in a village in northern Syria raising fears of further attacks against residents in the area. The killings in the village of...
