June 11, 2013 in Articles, Human Rights, News, PDKI's
http://kurdistantribune.com/2013/canada-1st-country-recognize-1988-iran-political-prisoner-massacre-as-crime-against-humanity/ Prepared by Sharif Behruz and Zakarya Khezeryan Canada’s government and opposition MPs voted on an NDP motion to condemn the massacre of thousands of political prisoners by the Islamic
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June 9, 2013 in Human Rights, News, PDKI's, Statements
Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan issued a statement on the recognition of 1988 mass execution of political prisoners in Iran as a ‘crime against humanity’ by Canada’s Parliament. The full text
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June 6, 2013 in Human Rights, News
House of Commons hosts Iran Accountability Week, with MP Cotler calling rights violations “crimes against humanity.” By Michael Wilner, Benjamin Weinthal Canada’s Parliament hosted Iran Accountability Week last week, documenting
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June 6, 2013 in News
Crowds chant ‘death to the dictator’ in reference to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ALISTAIR DAWBER WEDNESDAY 05 JUNE 2013 The Independant The biggest anti-regime demonstrations for years have taken place in
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June 4, 2013 in News
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/six-ways-canada-can-help-the-iranian-people/article12329813/ By Irwin Cotler and Kaveh Shahrooz Iran’s presidential election is set to take place on June 14. Yet, with candidates hand-selected for their loyalty to Iran’s Supreme Leader and
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June 1, 2013 in News
From the Country Reports on Terrorism 2012 US State Department Designated as a State Sponsor of Terrorism in 1984, Iran increased its terrorist-related activity, including attacks or attempted attacks in India, Thailand,
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May 31, 2013 in News
By Associated Press, Published: May 29 BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — The Argentine prosecutor who charged a handful of former Iranian officials with masterminding the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish center accused
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May 27, 2013 in Human Rights, News
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Concluding observations on the second periodic report of the Islamic Republic of Iran, adopted by the Committee at its fiftieth session (29 April-17
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May 24, 2013 in News
Author: Frieda Afary May 24, 2013 As we approach the June 2013 Iranian presidential election, the real frontrunners of the 2009 election, Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi as well as
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May 1, 2013 in News
Independent trade unions are banned in Iran. More than a dozen labor activists are in prison for exercising their right to freedom of assembly and association. Many others have been released
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April 26, 2013 in News, PDKI's
April 12, 2013 Socialist International The SI Committee on the Kurdish People, established by the Council following a decision by the Congress, held its first meeting in Sulaimaniya, on Friday
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April 25, 2013 in News
The enemy of my enemy is my friend By James Phillips April 24, 2013 Canadian police announced on Monday that they had arrested two foreign men plotting to derail a passenger train and
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April 25, 2013 in Human Rights, News
Richard Hill for the Telegraph A group of men from the Kurdish community in Iran have found a novel way of supporting women’s rights: cross-dressing. In a protest over the
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April 19, 2013 in Commentary, Interests, News, Updates
The Yazidi New Year falls in Spring (somewhat later than the Equinox). There is some lamentation by women in the cemeteries, to the accompaniment of the music of the Qewals, but the
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April 18, 2013 in Articles, Commentary, Interests, News, Updates
Sharif Behruz A judge in one of Iran’s Kurdish province punished an individual by forcing him to wear the feminine traditional Kurdish outfit in public in a bid to humiliate
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April 18, 2013 in News
By Ramadan Al-Saedi, Al-Arabiya The Eighth Congress of Nationalities for Federal Iran concluded on Sunday after two days of continuous debate. The representatives of several non-Persian nations participated in the
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April 17, 2013 in Articles, Commentary, Human Rights, Interests, News, Updates
The coalition STOP THE BOMB called on the Evangelische Akademie Loccum, a center belonging to the Lutheran Church Hannover, to recall the invitation of representatives of the Iranian regime to
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April 17, 2013 in Interests, News, Updates
April 16, 2013: A major earthquake hit Baluchistan region near the Iran-Pakistan border today, killing at least 34 people in Pakistan. The number of people killed and injured in neighbouring
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April 17, 2013 in News
By Wojtek Gwiazda | Radio Canada International Tuesday 16 April, 2013 Jim Karygiannis is a Member of Parliament with Canada’s opposition Liberal Party, and he’s been to numerous countries Russia, Somalia, Libya
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April 17, 2013 in News
-Not so mysterious, given the European and especially German cozyness with the Iranian regime in the last 3 decades. -I bet the Canadian-Iranian man in the story can easily come and go
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April 12, 2013 in News
In from the cold and now on Pennsylvania Avenue just a block from the White House! The National Council of Resistance of Iran, an umbrella group that included an armed
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April 11, 2013 in News
Iran’s semiofficial Fars News Agency seems to have retreated from its earlier, mind-boggling story saying that an Iranian scientist had invented the world’s first “time machine.” Yes, you read that
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April 11, 2013 in News
By TIM ARANGO Published: April 11, 2013 ZARGALI, Iraq — In a safe house made of cinder blocks and surrounded by grazing goats and sheep, nestled high in the remote
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April 10, 2013 in News
April 10, 2013 (AFP) A POWERFUL earthquake struck near Iran’s Gulf port city of Bushehr yesterday, killing at least 30 people and injuring 800 but leaving Iran’s only nuclear power
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April 9, 2013 in News, Updates
Jim Karygiannis is the Canadian MP who strived hard to have the Halabja chemical attach recognized as Genocide. Jim is the person who travelled thousands of miles to be side by side
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April 7, 2013 in News
Tuesday, 9 April 2013 Al Arabiya – Bahrain on Tuesday became the first Arab country to blacklist the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. Its alleged backing and
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April 6, 2013 in News
ISTANBUL – Hürriyet Daily News By Vercihan Ziflioğlu Iconic Kurdish singer Ahmet Kaya’s widow, Gülten Kaya, said she had not accepted the apologies made to her 13 years after his
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March 27, 2013 in Interests, News, Updates
Jewish communities in Israel and across the globe are preparing for Passover (Pesach) which coincides with the Christian Easter and traditional Zorashtian celebration of Newroz and Sezdebeder celebrated by many people
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March 21, 2013 in News
Tuesday 19th March 2013. Newroz Statement by the Honourable Jim Karygiannis, Member of Parliament for Scarborough-Agincourt and Liberal Critic for Multiculturalism I would like to take this opportunity to wish
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March 13, 2013 in Activities, Human Rights, News
The United Nations’ monitor for human rights in Iran sounded the alarm Tuesday over a rise in arrests of journalists, volume of executions and extrajudicial killings in Iran. Many western countries, including
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March 12, 2013 in Human Rights, News
By NICK CUMMING-BRUCE for the New York Times GENEVA — With presidential elections approaching in June, Iran has cracked down on journalists, rights activists and lawyers in an apparent bid to stifle dissent,
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March 12, 2013 in Human Rights, News
The European Union has imposed sanctions on Iranian judges, media officials and a special police internet monitoring unit linked to the death of a dissident in custody, citing grave human
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March 12, 2013 in News
(AP) IRBIL, Iraq — At an elite private school in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region, children learn Turkish and English before Arabic. University students dream of jobs in Europe, not Baghdad.
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March 10, 2013 in News
The United States and Saudi Arabia have presented a united front to Iran and Syria, alerting Iran’s leadership that patience over its alleged nuclear ambitions is wearing thin and warning
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March 9, 2013 in Human Rights, News
Khosrow Kurdpour, the editor of of Mukryan News Agency was arrested in the city of Mahabad, Kurdpa News Agency reported. The intelligence agents of the Islamist regime of Iran raided his house
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March 9, 2013 in News, ووتار و بابەت, کوردی
شەریف بەهرۆز ئەم بابەتە لە سایتی هەلۆی کوردستان بڵاو بۆتەوە فرە دژوارە ئێش و ئازار و نەهامەتییەکانی نیوەی کۆمەڵگا لە چەند دێڕێک و لە یەک رۆژدا بەیان کەی. ئەوە پێویستی
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March 4, 2013 in Articles, Commentary, Human Rights, News
Sharif Behruz On the International Mother Language Day on February 21, I came across an ‘interesting’ commentary, dated 19 July 2010, by one of the US funded medium that disseminates
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March 4, 2013 in Human Rights, News
Ian Traynor guardian.co.uk, Friday 1 March 2013 15.40 GMT While Turkish and Kurdish leaders wait for the music to start in their fragile “peace process”, they have already jointly taken
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March 4, 2013 in Human Rights, News
WASHINGTON (AP) — House leaders are pushing for tougher penalties on Iran to thwart its nuclear ambitions, introducing a bipartisan bill Wednesday that would pressure the U.S. to work with
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March 4, 2013 in Human Rights, News
March 1, 2013 Argentina’s About-Face on Terror By FABIÁN BOSOER and FEDERICO FINCHELSTEIN ON July 18, 1994, a van filled with explosives blew up outside the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, killing
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March 4, 2013 in News
With the 34th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution having just passed, one can debate whether Iran’s revolution was at any stage a democratic one, or if it was doomed to
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February 21, 2013 in Articles, News, Updates
“Our mother tongue, Kurdish language is our national identity; thus its preservation, authenticity and development are our utmost duty.” PDKI statement (Kurdish) on the occasion of International Mother Language Day International Mother Language Day has been celebrated
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February 14, 2013 in Activities, Articles, Human Rights, News, Updates
In 2010, the Honourable Jim Karygiannis, Liberal M.P. for Scarborough-Agincourt introduced Motion M-505 in the Canadian House of Commons, which recognized the actions of Saddam Hussein against the Kurds, as a crime
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February 13, 2013 in Articles, Human Rights, News, Updates
In a Resolution on Iran the SI strongly called for the Iranian government to respect the rights of political activists, noting the alarming numbers who have been executed, and also for the
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February 12, 2013 in Human Rights, News
I strongly condemn the bomb attack on NRT TV and expect the KRG authorities to safeguard the right to freedom of expression and hold those responsible for the attack accountable. In a
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February 12, 2013 in News
By FUAD HAQIQI for Rudaw ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Iran’s exiled Kurdish parties say they are ready to negotiate a return to the country, but only if talks are held
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February 11, 2013 in Human Rights, News
Claudia Roth is filmed at the Munich Security Conference engaging in the enthusiastic welcome with the Iranian Ambassador to Germany Ali Reza Sheikh Attar. Click on the image for the
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February 8, 2013 in News
By J.D. BINDENAGEL AND ROYA HAKAKIAN As Iran says it plans to upgrade its main nuclear enrichment plant at Natanz, and talks on its disputed nuclear program are set to
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February 8, 2013 in News
The official debate of the European Parliament in Strasbourg (France) on the “Dialogue for a peaceful solution of the Kurdish question in Turkey” was held on Wednesday. To watch the
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February 5, 2013 in News, PDKI's
In a recent interview with the Kurdish daily Hawlati, Mustafa Hijri, General Secretary of Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI), addressed issues pertaining to the current situation in Iran, the
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February 5, 2013 in News
An influential Kurdish leader in Turkey, in an interview published on Sunday, acknowledged the Kurds’ role in the Armenian Genocide and apologized to the Armenians on behalf of the Kurdish
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February 5, 2013 in News
The international media’s attention has again been focused on the decade’s old conflict between the Turkish government and Kurd separatists, since the killing of three PKK activists in Paris in
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February 5, 2013 in Human Rights, News
Dr Bernard Kouchner, the former French Foreign Minister, in London joined eye-witnesses, survivors, ministers, MPs and experts from several countries in calling for the international recognition of the Kurdish genocide
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February 1, 2013 in News
-The party also advocates for restrictions on the freedom of religion and worship to be lifted, the headscarf ban ended, wants adultery criminalized, and religious marriages to be recognized. -Though,
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January 31, 2013 in Articles, News
Sharif Behruz January 20, 2012 Iran is often in the headlines for its incompliance on nuclear impasse, supporting and condoning terrorism, highest per capita executions in the world, and of
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January 28, 2013 in Human Rights, News
January 23, 2013: The undersigned human rights organizations strongly oppose the death sentences issued by the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) against five civil and cultural activists who are members of
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January 28, 2013 in News, PDKI's
Posted by PDKI on January 24, 2013 The Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) celebrated the 67th anniversary of the establishment of the Republic of Kurdistan in Peshawa Hall in
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January 17, 2013 in Articles, News
Mardin deputy of the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party Ahmet Türk pointed to Iran as a possible culprit in killings of the three Kurdish women last week. Mardin deputy of
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January 16, 2013 in News
By Kani Xulam for the Huffington Post Ever since three Kurdish women political activistswere murdered in Paris last week — shot in the head execution-style — my phone has been ringing
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January 16, 2013 in Human Rights, News
The Iranian supreme court has this week confirmed the death sentences of five Ahwazi Arab political activists from Khalafieh (Ramshir),according to the Ahwaz Human Rights Organisation. Judge Sayed Mohammad Bagher
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January 16, 2013 in News
By AYUB NURI and JULIE PIETERSE for Rudaw 08/01/2013 As a Liberal Party member of the Canadian House of Commons since 1988, Jim Karygiannis is working to establish peace through
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January 4, 2013 in News
Peter Galbraith is a former US diplomat who advised the Kurds during constitutional negotiations with Baghdad. In this interview with Rudaw, the author of The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a
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January 4, 2013 in News
CNN’s Brian Todd looks at a new report on Iran’s 30,000-strong intelligence service and its international activities.
December 31, 2012 in News, Updates
May your New Year be a new year that brings luck and prosperity A New Year that brings happiness and joy Happy New Year!
December 24, 2012 in Commentary, Human Rights, News, Updates
Iranian Kurdish human rights activist and defender and journalist, Mohammad Sadigh Kaboudvand was given a 6 day leave after more than 5 years in prison on a hefty bail of
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December 24, 2012 in News
Canada is dropping an Iranian group that once allied itself with Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein from its official list of terrorists. In taking the Mujahedin-e-Khalq, or MEK, off the list,
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December 23, 2012 in Human Rights, News
By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The U.N. General Assembly condemned North Korea, Iran and Syria on Thursday for widespread human rights abuses and all three countries rejected the separate
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December 19, 2012 in Human Rights, News
In a special page dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the adoption of Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities, OHCHR of the
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December 14, 2012 in News
By Barzoo Eliassi for yourmiddleeast.com published on: December 12, 2012 On August 22, the two leading Kurdish parties in Iran, Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) and Komala (Revolutionary Society of
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December 14, 2012 in News, PDKI's
Abdullah Hicab, PDKI representative to the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO), was elected to the Presidency of the UNPO during its 11th General Assembly in Geneva on November 30,
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December 13, 2012 in News, PDKI's
The top leaders of Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) and its splinter group, best know as Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), met for the first time this week (photo gallery)
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December 6, 2012 in Commentary, News
A fire accident in an elementary school in the village of “Shinave” in the suburbs of the Kurdish city of Piranshahr, Iran’s Western Azerbaijan Province, injured 37 female students on
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November 28, 2012 in News
Listen to this debate about whether we can live with a nuclear-armed regime in Iran? I said “NO” and I voted for Charles Krauthammer on CBC’s The Current. Visit the
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November 11, 2012 in FlashBack, News
Published: Sunday, November 11, 2012 on www.israelnationalnews.com While Arabs have seen the birth of almost two dozen “Arab” League states during the past century (mostly carved out of other peoples’
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November 8, 2012 in Human Rights, News, Statements
Kurdish political prisoners in Turkey have been on a hunger strike for more than 50 days in order to get their demands met. The civil society in Turkish Kurdistan has
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November 1, 2012 in Human Rights, News
By Daren Butler ISTANBUL | Thu Nov 1, 2012 12:02pm EDT (Reuters) – Jailed Kurdish militants on hunger strike inTurkey may start to die within the next 10 days, Turkey’s main medical association
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October 8, 2012 in Human Rights, News
UNPO General Secretary Marino Busdachin provided the members of the Delegation for Relations with Iran on 9 October 2012 with an overview of the human rights situation of minorities, in
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September 20, 2012 in Human Rights, News, PDKI's
Democracy in Iran, Peace and Stability in the Middle East Ladies and Gentlemen, On behalf of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI), I would like to welcome you most
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September 12, 2012 in Articles, News
By SHARIF BEHRUZ published in Rudaw: http://www.rudaw.net/english/science/op-ed-contributors/5188.html 09/12/2012 Canada severed its diplomatic relations with the regime in Iran by the abrupt closing of its embassy in Tehran and expelling the regime’s
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September 12, 2012 in Activities, News, PDKI's, Updates
Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan in Eastern Canada will be hosting an event to commomorate the victims of 1992 Mykonos Assassination, Berlin Germany. Exactly 20 years ago, gunmen dispatched by the
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September 11, 2012 in News, PDKI's
In an interview with Rudaw, Mustafa Hejri, the secretary general of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI), shares his optimism over a recent unification between his group and the Revolutionary Society
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August 27, 2012 in Human Rights, News, PDKI's
His Excellency Ban Ki-moon, the Secretary General of the United Nations, Dear Secretary General, We were informed of your Excellency’s intention to participate in the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in Tehran
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August 25, 2012 in News
August 24, 2012 pdki.org: A Conference under the name of “the Iranian Society and the Nations in Iran”, will be Held in Paris by the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan
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August 25, 2012 in News
August 24, 2012 Pdki.org: On the 20th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Sadegh Sharafkandi and his aides an anniversary memorial will be held at the Père Lachaise Cemetery in
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August 25, 2012 in News, PDKI's
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region—Two major Iranian Kurdish parties signed a deal on Tuesday night, raising hopes for a united Iranian Kurdish front. The agreement between the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran
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August 23, 2012 in News, Statements
Pdki.org staff writer August 22, 2012 In a joint statement, the signing of a memorandum of agreement between Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan and the Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan
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August 17, 2012 in News
BY DAVID ENDERS McClatchy Newspapers AMMOUDA, SYRIA – The only place in the predominantly Kurdish city of Ammouda that’s still flying the Syrian flag is the police station, but people here
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August 14, 2012 in News, Statements
pdki.org staff writer August 14, 2012 Two powerful earthquakes hit north-western Iran just minutes apart on Saturday killing hundreds of people and injuring thousands. Officials said panicked residents fled into
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August 14, 2012 in News
(Reuters) – Iran’s government faced criticism on Monday over its response to two earthquakes that killed 306 people, with complaints of a lack of tents and about President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s
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August 10, 2012 in News
By Francis Matthew | Editor at Large for Gulf News The continuing fighting in Syria is a golden opportunity for foreign governments to put military forces onto the ground and
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August 10, 2012 in News
(Reuters) – A Kurdish party that is extending its power in northern Syria as President Bashar al-Assad battles an insurgency raging elsewhere, warned Turkey not to interfere in the region where it
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August 8, 2012 in News
By Najmuddin A Shaikh for Dawn.com ON Friday, the Bashar al-Assad regime suffered another symbolic defeat when the UN General Assembly voted 133 to 12 with 31 abstentions for a Saudi-sponsored resolution
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July 28, 2012 in News
By Ryan Mauro On July 13, a group of over 100 opponents of the Iranian regime crammed into a small conference room in McLean, V.A. to honor a Kurdish leader
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July 25, 2012 in News
Salah Bayaziddi Three years since the massive political and social upheavals that followed June’s 2009 disputed presidential election in Iran, mostly known as “Green Movement”, this question still pending and
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July 20, 2012 in Human Rights, News
Iran has stepped up its crackdown against its Arab minority with mass arrests of activists and death sentences passed in closed-door courts. At least five Arab prisoners who are currently kept
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July 20, 2012 in Human Rights, News
Kurdpa: In a press statement just hours ago, the US Department of State’s Victoria Nuland called on Iran to release “all political prisoners”, but expressed particular concern for two journalists
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July 19, 2012 in News
JERUSALEM: Syria’s alliance with Iran and Hezbollah took “a severe blow” after a deadly rebel attack on Damascus killed three top security chiefs, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Thursday.
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July 19, 2012 in Human Rights, News
Fazel Hawramy Wednesday 18, 2012 Three human rights organisations have called on the Iranian authorities to “immediately and unconditionally” release an ailing Kurdish journalist and activist whose health conditions “have
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July 19, 2012 in News
(AFP) BUENOS AIRES — Argentine prosecutors have proof of Iranian involvement in a deadly 1994 attack on a Jewish community center building, the center’s president claimed Wednesday. In a speech
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July 15, 2012 in News
pdki.org staff writer July 14, 2012 Muhammad Sedigh Kaboudvand, the prominent imprisoned Iranian Kurdish human rights campaigner had released a statement from his prison cell on the 23rd anniversary of
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July 13, 2012 in News, Updates
Kurdpa: The satellite feed of the Kurdish language television TISHK TV was jammed on Thursday, July 12, 2012 for the second consecutive year. The interference began on early Thursday morning on
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July 9, 2012 in Human Rights, News
Kurdpa News Agency publishes the full list of victims of Iran’s extra-judicial killings of on-foot border crossing couriers in the last 14 months in the Kurdish areas of Iran. Kurdpa: Since the beginning
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July 9, 2012 in Human Rights, News
This briefing document was produced by the Ahwazi Arab Solidarity Network and is for free distribution. It gives an insight into the treatment of Ahwazi Arab political prisoners by Iran’s Ministry
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July 9, 2012 in News
SULAIMANI, Kurdistan Region – After nearly four weeks, there are still no clues about the whereabouts of Mawloud Afand, editor-in-chief of Israel-Kurd magazine. Afand went missing after a trip to Sulaimani on
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July 6, 2012 in Human Rights, News
In commemoration of the 23rd anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Abdulrahman Ghassemlou, then the General Secretary of Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan by the agents of the Islamic Republic of
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July 6, 2012 in News
(AFP) / 4 July 2012 Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region has crowned the first-ever Miss Kurdistan, though the beauty contest took place without bikini-clad women and with journalists and their cameras
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July 6, 2012 in Human Rights, News
Syrian security forces are running more than two dozen torture centres where captors regularly punch staples into detainees’ skin, tear out their fingernails, beat them with sticks and administer electric
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July 6, 2012 in Human Rights, News
A surreptitiously-shot video captured three brutal, burly Syrian enforcers slapping, stomping and whipping a half-naked prisoner as he moans in agony. The 95-second clip from a detention center in Kafranbel
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July 5, 2012 in Human Rights, News
There is some horrible news out of Kurdistan today. Ekurd.net reportsthat Mawloud Afand, editor of an Israel-Kurdish magazine called Israel Kurd “disappeared ten days ago in [the] Kurdistan region of Iraq.” Israeli news
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June 21, 2012 in News
Many people around the world are marking World Refugee Day Wednesday by paying tribute to the more than 42 million people who have been forcibly displaced from their homes. In
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June 21, 2012 in Human Rights, News
By Saeed Kamali Dehghan for The Guardian Tuesday 19 June 2012 After trials human right activists described as grossly unfair Iran has executed three members of its Ahwazi Arab minority. Abd al-Rahman Heidarian, Taha
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June 20, 2012 in Human Rights, News
Pdki.org staff writer June 19, 2012 Geneva – The Geneva based Iranian Kurdistan Human Rights Society held a conference on the condition of human rights in Iran and the
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June 14, 2012 in Human Rights, News
Posted by Fazel Hawramy Monday 11 June 2012 The Guardian: Many imprisoned Iranian journalists, stripped of their basic rights by the government, are going on long hunger strikes to draw
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June 14, 2012 in Human Rights, News
Kurdpa: A motion passed on the floor of House of Commons of the British Parliament on Wednesday, June 13, 2012 criticizes the government in Iran for its treatment of Ahwazi
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June 14, 2012 in News
Kurdpa: Two-thirds of Iranian households have access to computers and 39 percent of Iranians surf the Internet weekly, new data gathered for the Broadcasting Board of Governors show The findings reveal
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June 14, 2012 in News
Gulf Daily News: IRAN will continue to live in the dark ages while it is led by theocrats, says a top Bahraini intellectual. The country has a great opportunity to
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June 8, 2012 in News
CNFI Representatives Tell Brussels: “Iran’s different nationalities can have a fair and common future only in a federal and decentralized democracy”. Brussels, 6 June 2012 Two days of meetings in
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June 8, 2012 in News
ORUMIYEH, Iran — Wajdi Hatami, the head of the Ahmadi Xani Cultural Institute, says that his is the only Kurdish civil organization in Orumiyeh (Wirme in Kurdish), but that it
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June 8, 2012 in News
AFP: The opposition Syrian National Council meets in Istanbul to choose a new leader this weekend with insiders saying Kurdish activist Abdel Basset Sayda has emerged as a consensus candidate.
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June 7, 2012 in Human Rights, News
The latest report on Human Rights conditions in Iran by the U.S. State Department’s points a dark image of violations and mistreatment by Iranian regime. Assistant Secretary of State for
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June 7, 2012 in News
ISTANBUL – How to resolve a more than three-decade Kurdish insurgency in Turkey was the topic of a rare meeting Wednesday between the country’s prime minister and main opposition political
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June 7, 2012 in Human Rights, News
Kurdpa: Muhammad Sedigh Kaboudvand, journalist and human rights activist was transferred to Evin Prison’s medical center due to his deteriorating health conditions. The imprisoned head of Kurdistan Human Rights Organization
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May 11, 2012 in Human Rights, News
Kurdpa: The whereabouts of three Kurdish political prisoners are still unknown for four years following their arrest. Jamil Barez, Shahed Bahrami and Aso Mirzaie were rounded up on May 28,
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May 11, 2012 in News
WASHINGTON — Top US officials are meeting in Washington this week with Syrian Kurdish leaders in a bid to build a “more cohesive opposition” to President Bashar al-Assad, the State
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May 11, 2012 in News
Kurdpa: The head of the Association of Kidney Patients in Iran believes that unemployment is the sole factor behind kidney trade in Iran. Mostafa Ghassemi, the head of the Association
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May 3, 2012 in News
By Darren Lum Tears welled up and silence prevailed among the audience members while a Kurdish author described the cultural genocide of her people. Ava Homa, author of critically acclaimed
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May 3, 2012 in Human Rights, News
Kurdpa: The Iranian regime is using racist propaganda, intimidation and violent repression to deter protests by its persecuted Arab citizens. It has imposed martial law and resorted to arrests, imprisonment,
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May 3, 2012 in Human Rights, News
BOKAN, Iranian Kurdistan — Public anger continues over the abduction and killing of a 17-year-old girl in the Kurdish town of Bokan in western Iranian Kurdistan. Sumayeh Faizullapur, a high
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May 1, 2012 in Human Rights, News
KURDPA: The security forces on the back of a military vehicle targeted a group of youth on a motorcycle in the city of Mariwan resulting in the serious injury of
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April 30, 2012 in Human Rights, News
KURDPA: there is no information about the fate of two citizens of Mahabad whom were arrested a few days ago by the Intelligence Ministry. According to HRANA, the official website of
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April 30, 2012 in Human Rights, News
KURDPA: 5 prisoners sentenced to death in Oroumiyeh prison have been severely beaten and tortured on the pretext of preventing them from jailbreak by officers and special guards of the prison.
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April 28, 2012 in Human Rights, News
KURDPA: According to latest news and information received from Kurdistan and on-the-ground events in the Kurdish areas of Iran in the last month and all the evidences available show that the
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April 28, 2012 in Human Rights, News
KURDPA: US State Department spokesperson, Victoria Nuland called upon the Iranian Government to release Kaboudvand and the some 90 other journalist it’s currently holding in Iranian prisons. Under the US State
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April 27, 2012 in News
THE blindfolded man groans and struggles for breath as the men in uniform shovel dirt over his head: he is already buried up to his neck, and his prayers are
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April 27, 2012 in News
Iran is recruiting a hacker army to target the U.S. power grid, water systems and other vital infrastructure for a cyberattack in a future confrontation with the United States, security specialists
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April 26, 2012 in Human Rights, News
KURDPA: According to latest news and information received from Kurdistan and on-the-ground events in the Kurdish areas of Iran in the last month and all the evidences available show that the
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April 25, 2012 in News
Foreign Reports Bulletin Nathaniel Kern, Matthew M. Reed April 16, 2012 If you believe state media in Iran, the Islamic Republic is now preemptively boycotting some states in the European Union,
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April 18, 2012 in News
By ZEINA KARAM, Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Syria’s Kurds, who have long complained of discrimination under President Bashar Assad, would seem a natural fit to join the revolt against
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April 18, 2012 in News
BY PATRICK CLAWSON | APRIL 13, 2012 You wouldn’t know it from following the news, but the nuclear impasse is not the only issue dividing Iran and the United States. In his latest
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April 17, 2012 in News
The Atlantic The New York Times quotes one anonymous Western diplomat as saying, in reference to the just-completed P5 + 1 talks over Iran’s nuclear program — talks in which the only
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April 17, 2012 in Human Rights, News
(13 April 2012) – As part of its ongoing investigation of human rights abuses against Kurdish activists in Iran, the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC) has received recent reports
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April 17, 2012 in Human Rights, News
(11 April 2012) – For decades, the Islamic Republic of Iran has led a targeted campaign of repression against Kurdish activists within Iran’s borders. Today, this persecution is particularly acute,
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April 3, 2012 in Human Rights, News
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March 30, 2012 in News, Updates
March 31 is Remembrance Day in Eastern Kurdistan. On this day 65 years ago, President Qazi Muhammad – the President of the newly established Republic of Kurdistan – and two
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March 30, 2012 in News
Ruwayda Mustafah British-Kurdish activist, feminist, writer, and law student The palestinian cause has become internalised within Human rights discourse, and Muslim movements, the Kurdish cause in contrast has been marginalised,
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March 30, 2012 in News
Emanuele Ottolenghi March 30, 2012 National Times OPINION As prospects of an Israeli attack against Iran’s nuclear program mount, the concerns of many are understandable – an Iranian response, some
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March 28, 2012 in News
George Jonas Mar 28, 2012 – 7:00 AM ET | Last Updated: Mar 27, 2012 4:41 PM ET Here’s a tailor-made column. The customer who “bespoke” it probably gets his shirts made to
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March 27, 2012 in News, Updates
This is the first time the subject of Balochistan has been discussed on a Canadian TV channel. SUN News Network is a Canada-wide Current Affairs TV Network reaching millions of
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March 27, 2012 in Human Rights
“A similar fate has befallen ethnic minorities inside Iran – nearly half the country’s population. The regime has aggressively pursued its war against Jondallah in Iranian Baluchistan. It has used
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March 23, 2012 in News, PDKI's
Gary Kent | Posted on 22 March 2012 For Progressive Online Are we missing a vital ingredient in the debate about how to deal with Iran? The debate is stuck
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March 23, 2012 in News, PDKI's
Ruwayda Mustafah British-Kurdish activist, feminist, writer, and law student Posted: 19/03/2012 Huffingtonpost The Iranian government harbours grandiose ambitions of becoming an influential force in Middle East. It has become a
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March 21, 2012 in News
by Denise Natali | published March 20, 2012 Upheaval in Syria has given Kurdish groups new opportunities to advance their nationalist agendas while serving as proxies for neighboring states. In Turkey, the
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March 21, 2012 in Human Rights, News, Updates
Iranian political prisoner Habibollah Golparipour says security forces took him “to the verge of death with physical and psychological torture.” The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran reports that
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March 20, 2012 in Articles, Interests, News
Nevroz marks the first day of spring and the beginning of the year in the spring equinox and the first day of the Kurdish calendar. It is celebrated on the
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March 20, 2012 in News, Photo Gallery, Updates
March 15, 2012 in Human Rights, News
UN Independent Expert Ahmed Shaheed on Iran calls for cooperation from the government to ensure transparency. Shaheed presented a report to the United Nations Human Rights Council, Monday 12th March,
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March 15, 2012 in News, Updates
Trove of correspondence published by Guardian The Associated Press Posted: Mar 14, 2012 8:19 PM ET Thousands of emails purported to be from the private accounts of Bashar Assad and
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March 15, 2012 in News, Updates
March 13, 2012|John Heilprin, Associated Press French surgeon Jacques Beres has operated in war zones for 40 years, but he says the carnage in Syria is among the most horrific he
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March 12, 2012 in News
KRISTY KIRKUP | PARLIAMENTARY BUREAU Sun News Canada’s military is preparing for all possibilities involving Iran, according to Defence Minister Peter MacKay. “We are pursuing every diplomatic means, but he fact remains
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March 12, 2012 in Featured in the media, Interviews, News
by David Rookhuyzen - Mar. 9, 2012 07:01 AM The Republic | azcentral.com Fatemah Asadi and her husband, Rahmat Khalili, were brought to the U.S. as refugees nine years ago and thought
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March 11, 2012 in News
QAMISHLI, Iraq — Inside a muddy village named for a failed revolt against Syrian authorities, a history of flight and exile is repeating itself. Over the past few months, scores
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March 10, 2012 in News
New York Post NEWSCORE Last Updated: 8:19 PM, March 8, 2012 Posted: 8:18 PM, March 8, 2012 WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said in an interview Thursday that the Pentagon “absolutely”
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March 8, 2012 in News, Updates
Today is International Women’s Day, a day to recognize women’s struggles for equality and justice.
March 3, 2012 in Articles, News, Updates
Polls opened on Friday for the ninth Islamic Consultative Assembly (Majlis or Islamic Parliament) election in Iran that is set to test the popularity of the clerical establishment and the country-wide boycott
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February 28, 2012 in News, Updates
By BENOÎT FAUCON Wall Street Journal LONDON—A European Union oil embargo has started to impede the shipment of Iranian oil to Asia, the latest threat to Tehran’s hopes to find new
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February 28, 2012 in News, Updates
(CNN) – While the world’s attention has been focused on tumult in the Arab world, Iran has cracked down with impunity on dissent and is feared to come down even harder
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February 24, 2012 in News, Updates
Last week, one of the most important international banking organizations said it was preparing to ban blacklisted Iranian banks for their role in facilitating illicit financial transactions. Although existing international sanctions
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February 22, 2012 in FlashBack, News, Updates
Today, February 21, 2012 is the International Mother Language Day. Hoping, on this day, for a future that no human being will be deprived of education and development in one’s
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February 22, 2012 in Articles, News, Updates
To honor the memory and achievements of Kurdistan Republic of 1946, proclaimed by Qazi Muhamad then the leader of Kurdistan Democratic Party (now best known as PDKI or KDPI), a memorial was
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February 20, 2012 in News, Updates
“At the Palace of Westminster, leading Kurd figures call for a “united front” against the Assad regime.” Key points from the report: -”there can be no alternative regime until the
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February 9, 2012 in Interests, News, Updates
Syrians express their anger at the Iranian and Russian crooks on the streets of Syria Khamanie’s coffin is showcased on the streets of Romania by Syrian expatriates
February 9, 2012 in News, Updates
On the verge of anniversary celebrations of the Revolution of 1979 that was hijacked by the current cleric rulers of Iran, organizers of the events have forced shop owners to
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February 8, 2012 in News, Updates
Ibrahim Younesi, a prominent Kurdish author and translator died today following a long battle with Alzimer. His body is due to return to Baneh, (Iranian Kurdistan) his home town, from
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February 8, 2012 in News, Updates
About 50 exiled members of Iran’s opposition on Saturday gathered for a two-day conference in Stockholm to discuss how they can unite to promote democracy in their homeland and better
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February 7, 2012 in Human Rights, News
(New York) – Iranian security forces arrested more than 65 Arab residents during security sweeps in Iran’s Arab-majority Khuzestan province since late 2011 according to local activists, Human Rights Watch
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February 2, 2012 in News, PDKI's, Updates
For Immediate Release January 24, 2012 Contact: usa@pdki.org Washington, DC Recently the Arizona based television channel “3TV” covered a story on the alarming conditions of an Iranian Kurdish family living
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February 1, 2012 in News
by John Thompson and Sara Akrami ↓ on Feb 1st, 2012 The deaths of the Iranian defence scientists have allowed the regime in Tehran to weep copious tears and sputter
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January 21, 2012 in Human Rights, News, Updates
By Irwin Cotler Iran’s Supreme Court has now confirmed the death sentence of Iranian-born web programmer Saeed Malekpour, a Canadian permanent resident. Malekpour was convicted of “crimes against Islam” and
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January 20, 2012 in Updates
The 66th Anniversary of Kurdistan Republic of 1946 in the National Capital Region of US, London, Ontario Canada and Vancouver, BC Canada رێوەرەسمەکانی ٦٦ەمین ساڵڤەگەری دامەزرانی کۆماری کوردستان لە شارەکانی
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January 13, 2012 in News, Updates, Video
AZFamily News Channel Reporting by Crystal Cruz “We understand this puts people in a difficult situation where they must wait for many years for something that they might get right
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January 8, 2012 in Updates
with Roya Hakakian Poet, journalist, and writer Focusing on the 1992 assassinations of the Kurdish leaders in Berlin, Hakakian will discuss her book, Assassins of the Turquoise Palace, which provides
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January 1, 2012 in Activities, News, Updates
December 31, 2011 Happy New Year! As we embark on the journey of another year, let us wish all of you the best on New Year’s Day and beyond. We
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December 23, 2011 in News
By Dennis Ross Wall Street Journal, December 23, 2011 President Barack Obama, like President George W. Bush before him, has stated that it would be unacceptable for Iran to have nuclear
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December 9, 2011 in Interests, Video
A son unpicks the story of his father’s life as a Kurdish fighter as he confronts him about being sent away as a child. Zanyar is a magazine publisher based
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December 2, 2011 in Articles, Updates
The 8 months old uprising in Syria is not only Bashar Assad’s nightmare, but is also the nightmare of his most interested ally: Iran. Indeed, since the beginning of the
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December 1, 2011 in News, Statements, Updates
Pdki.org staff writer November 30, 2011 – Several hundred Iranian militia students, protected by the regime security forces stormed and ransacked the British embassy and residence compounds on Tuesday in
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November 22, 2011 in FlashBack, News, Updates
Danielle Mitterrand, the widow of France’s former Socialist President François Mitterrand, died early Tuesday at the age of 87. A former resistance heroine, she used her position as first lady
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November 22, 2011 in News
In the course of its existence, the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC) has conducted extensive research into gross human right violation in Iran compiling valuable documents such as Murder at Mykonos:
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November 13, 2011 in News, Updates
(watch video) The deaths continue in the crackdown on protesters in Syria with another twenty-five people killed on Thursday, according to activists. Fourteen of them are said to be civilians.
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October 26, 2011 in News, Updates
Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence | 311 Cannon House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 | 10/26/2011 – 10:00am On Wednesday, October 26, 2011 the Committee on Homeland Security’s Subcommittee on Counterterrorism
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October 24, 2011 in News, Statements, Updates
A 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck Turkey’s north east city of Van on Sunday, October 23, 2011 with Its epicenter 35 km in north west of Van province, and shocks being
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October 24, 2011 in News, Updates, Video
To note from the video: -People here say that aside from a small emergency team, they say they don’t even have the tools to do the job, let alone the
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October 19, 2011 in News
By ROYA HAKAKIAN On the night of Sept. 17, 1992, at 10:45, two darkly clad men burst in on a private dinner at a Berlin restaurant and stood over a table
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October 13, 2011 in News
The Islamic Republic is becoming more dangerous, not less, as it ages. By REUEL MARC GERECHT There is still much to learn about the Iranian-directed plot to blow up the Saudi
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October 12, 2011 in Articles, News, Updates
– dedicated to the life and works of martyr Mashaal Tammo October 10, 2011 More than 50,000 mourners marched through the streets of Qamishli, a city in Syria’s Kurdish northeast,
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September 28, 2011 in News
FrontPage Magazine – The U.S. is calling on Syrian dictator Bashar Assad to step down and is increasingly persuaded that the uprising against his rule will be victorious. As the
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September 22, 2011 in Human Rights, News
Kurdpa.com: The Dehloran Deputy in Iran’s Islamic Assembly stated: After more than two decades of the end of the Iran-Iraq war, we witness civilian death on daily basis due to
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September 21, 2011 in News
There is a lot that could be said about this staged and planned episode; however this Editorial (below) lays out the ordeal of these three hikers in Iran eloquently. Congratulations on
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September 21, 2011 in News
Simon Tisdall guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 21 September 2011 13.13 BST Turkey’s noisy championing of Palestinian rights, a source of growing friction with the US and Israel, jars uncomfortably with Ankara’s treatment of
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September 17, 2011 in News, Updates
The New York Times Book Review On the night of Sept. 17, 1992, two armed men entered the Mykonos restaurant in Berlin and shot dead a visiting Kurdish leader of the
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September 16, 2011 in News, Updates
New York, NY – Today, United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) called on its supporters to contact the Warwick New York Hotel concerning its decision to host Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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September 15, 2011 in News, Updates
This past July 13 marked the 22nd anniversary of Dr. A. R. Ghassemlou and his aides; Human Rights Activists Association at York University and The Greater Toronto Kurdish House hosted
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September 15, 2011 in Articles, News, Sharif's, Speeches, Updates, Video
July 17, 2011 Terror and Terrorists: Dr. Ghassemlou’s Murder On July 14, 1989 the French people celebrated the bicentennial of the French Revolution. As the French were celebrating their revolution
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September 15, 2011 in News
Toronto, July 18, 2011 July 13, is a very heartfelt and meaningful day for the Kurdish nation, a day in which the life of a much-loved and respected Kurdish leader
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September 15, 2011 in News
By: Soraya Fallah Co-researcher: Cklara Moradian Dr. Ghaseloo’s Assassination: A Case for Taking International Legal Action Ladies and gentlemen, first and foremost I would like to thank you for
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August 28, 2011 in Articles, News, Updates
Sharif Behruz for Medya News August 27, 2011 – In protest to diversion of many rivers that feed one of the largest salty lake in the world, Lake Orumieh in north
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August 27, 2011 in News
The Iranian regime is one of the few remaining allies of the embattled Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad. For years, the United States has tried to sever the ties between the
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August 3, 2011 in FlashBack, News, PDKI's, Updates
by HAMID FAROKHNIA in Tehran 24 Jul 2011 03:35 ‘Federalism is not a recipe for disintegration,’ declares DPIK chief Mostafa Hejri. As one of the oldest Kurdish political parties in
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July 29, 2011 in News, Updates
Washington Post: The Obama administration said Thursday that Iran is helping al-Qaeda funnel cash and recruits into Pakistan for its international operations, the most serious U.S. allegation to date of
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July 27, 2011 in Human Rights, News
Near East: Axis of Abuse: U.S. Human Rights Policy toward Iran and Syria: Part 1 Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:16:41 -0500 Ambassador Posner: It is no coincidence both Iran and
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July 22, 2011 in News
President Ahmadinejad is the leader of a criminal regime that flouts international law by pursuing an illegal nuclear weapons program, sponsoring terrorism, and abusing its own citizens. We strongly believe
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It is true that the Islamic regime does not show any respect to the decisions taken by the international community, but it does not mean that these strong voices of
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July 14, 2011 in FlashBack, News
Posted on Medya News on 13 July 2011 Marc Kravetz (Translated from Libération, August 7, 1989) Abdel Rahman Ghassemlou, murdered in Vienna on July 13th 1989, was in every way an
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July 13, 2011 in News
Pdki.org staff writer July 12, 2011 (pdki.org) The authorities in Iran have electronically jammed the Kurdish language television TISHK TV over its coverage of the planned mass strike for July
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July 12, 2011 in Activities, News, Updates
The regime of Islamic Republic of Iran is one of the most terrorist-state that we have witnessed in our times. Much of the free world, Europe and US included, recognizes
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June 24, 2011 in Human Rights, News
By Jim Karygiannis, Canada MP Published June 22, 2011 in Embassy, Canada’s Foreign Policy Newspaper The Turkish government cannot afford to continue to ignore and belittle the plight of the
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June 24, 2011 in News
A very remarkable testimony by Dr Satloff on the situation in Syria as it relates to Iran and an urgently needed US policy…Could not have expressed it any better… — Featuring
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May 31, 2011 in Activities, News
by pdki.org staff writter May 30, 2011 (pdki.org) Representatives and leaders of Iran’s ethnic and religious minorities were invited for a briefing symposium on Capitol Hill to discuss the situation
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May 23, 2011 Distinguished guests, Ladies and Gentlemen, Let me begin by thanking all those who made this extraordinary gathering possible. Fundamental human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran
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May 28, 2011 in News
May 25, 2011 (AP) OROUMIEH LAKE, Iran — From a hillside, Kamal Saadat looked forlornly at hundreds of potential customers, knowing he could not take them for trips in his
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May 19, 2011 in News
Kurdish Human Rights Watch, Inc. (KHRW) Leadership Council for Human Rights (LC4HR) Cordially invite you to Iran’s Ethno-Religious Minorities Under Siege on Monday May 23rd 2011 12:00 – 1:00 PM
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April 16, 2011 in News
The Ahwazi Arab ‘Day of Rage’ proceeded under a complete media black-out and brutal state repression, leaving at least nine dead, scores injured and hundreds detained by security services. During
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April 8, 2011 in News, Statements
pdki.org staff writer April 8, 2011 – Iraqi security forces in bulldozers and Humvees barreled into a camp that is home to an Iranian opposition group early Friday, sources reported.
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April 1, 2011 in News, Updates
Right Step in the Right Direction…Hope to see Apple, Windows, Facebook and others following suit ——– Google First Major Online Portal to Provide Search in Kurdish Google Arabia announced earlier today the launch
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CNN’s Hala Gorani explains though small the protests in Syria are significant because they are spreading.
March 19, 2011 in News, Updates
بەهار و سەری ساڵ و نەورۆزی کوردەواریتان پیرۆز بێ Newroz or Nûroj (Kurdish: نهورۆز/Newroz/Nûroj, also: Gulus Kurdish: گوڵوس) refers to the celebration of the traditional Iranian new year holiday of
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March 16, 2011 in FlashBack, News
BBC – Thousands of people are reported to have been killed and many others injured in a poison gas attack on a Kurdish city in northern Iraq. Up to 20
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March 13, 2011 in Human Rights, News
The Statement of the Campaign for the Defence of Iranian Nations’ Political Prisoners The freedom-loving people of Iran! Organizations and community of human rights defenders! For ages, Iran, our tyrannized
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March 1, 2011 in Commentary, News, Video
A brief biography on the so called Prof. Marandi from Tehran University and an interview followed posted on PBS’s Tehran Bureau. What is so upsetting about this Professor? is the
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March 1, 2011 in News
Slogans: Death to Dictator Zealous army, embrace the nation Hashemi (Hashemi-Rafsanjani) have decency and leave the dictator
February 21, 2011 in News, Video
Witnesses say security agents on motorcycles are riding onto sidewalks to disperse opposition protests in Tehran, Iran.
February 17, 2011 in News, Video
Thirty-two years later, Iran is still fighting for its independence. Can Egypt do better? CNN’s Sandra Endo reports.
February 17, 2011 in News, Video
February 17, 2011 in News, Video
Egypt’s uprising’s impact on the region with ex-CIA Director James Woolsey
February 17, 2011 in News, Video
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accuses the West and Israel of trying to create discord in the Mideast.
February 16, 2011 in News, Video
Protests spread in the Middle East
February 16, 2011 in News, Video
World leaders react to Iran uprising
February 15, 2011 in News, Video
CNN’s Anderson Cooper: Brutality and Hypocrisy in Iran
February 14, 2011 in News, Updates
pdki.org Video clips uploaded to the Internet are said to show crowds of protesters out in streets of the Iranian capital on the day the political opposition had called for
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February 4, 2011 in Human Rights, News, Updates
I am wholeheartedly delighted that this courageous Kurdish activist has been nominated for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize. Today, as always, I feel proud to be Kurdish. I have always
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January 27, 2011 in Human Rights, News
By pdki.org staff writter January 27, 2011 (pdki.org) Kurdish political prisoner Farhad Tarom, from the village of “Lavark” of the Dashtabel district of Oshnavieh city in West Azerbijan province in
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January 21, 2011 in Human Rights
20 Jan 2011 (Medya News) Following the release of the news, the Islamic Republic’s public execution of a political activist, the probability that the executed person is Hussein Khizri, the Kurdish
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