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KHRP Approaches 16 with Style and Substance |
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Friday, 21 November 2008 |
Lord Eric Avebury last night hosted the launch of Kurds: Through the Photographer’s Lens, a singular collection of photographs, poetry and writing commissioned by the Delfina Foundation to celebrate 15 years of the Kurdish Human Rights Project.
Twenty striking photographs from the book were on display during the event at the SW1 Gallery in London and these were later auctioned by comedian Mark Thomas, a longstanding supporter of KHRP, raising some £5,000 towards the organisation’s work for the protection and promotion of the human rights of all people living in the Kurdish regions. Tickets for a prize draw were also sold and the winners presented with copies of the book signed by contributor Harold Pinter.
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Michael Mansfield QC Hosts Dinner at the Law Society to Raise Funds for KHRPs Strategic Litigation |
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Thursday, 20 November 2008 |
Michael Mansfield QC and Kerim Yildiz hosted a fundraising dinner at the Law Society on 19 November to celebrate KHRP’s 15th anniversary and to raise financial support for groundbreaking casework before the European Court of Human Rights.
The evening began with a speech by KHRP Honorary President Lord Eric Avebury about the history of the organisation and his own experiences of the difficulty of undertaking human rights work in relation to Turkey, having himself been banned from the country for criticising the practices of the authorities.
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KHRP Publishes Response to European Commission Turkey Progress Report |
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008 |
KHRP is pleased to announce the publication of a statement in response to the European Commission’s Turkey 2008 Progress Report, which was published earlier this month.
KHRP welcomes the fact that the report underlines the failure of the Turkish authorities to press ahead with earlier human rights reforms. In almost every area of concern from the point of view of human rights, the Commission underlines that there has been limited or no improvement in the period covered. Even where mechanisms exist to protect human rights, there are widespread problems with implementation of these measures.
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KHRP Marks Day of the Imprisoned Writer |
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Friday, 14 November 2008 |
On ‘The Day of the Imprisoned Writer’, organised by the ‘Writers in Prison Committee’ of International PEN, KHRP wishes to draw attention to the plight of writers in the Kurdish regions who continue to be imprisoned, tortured, killed and intimidated.
Despite amendments to the notorious Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code earlier this year, writers in Turkey still work in a hostile environment. Later this month Baris Pehlivan and Nurettin Yilmaz will face trial in connection with a television program that Pehlivan produced which discussed Witness of the Recent Past, the former Kurdish politician Yilmaz’s account of his imprisonment and torture between 1980 and 1984. If convicted of ‘inciting hatred and hostility’, each could face up to four and a half years in prison.
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KHRP Board of Patrons Member Barred from Turkey |
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Thursday, 13 November 2008 |
KHRP regrets that Jon Rud, a Norwegian human rights lawyer and member of the organisation’s Board of Patrons, was refused entry into Turkey on 7 November and told that he will never be allowed to visit.
Mr Rud is the former Chairman of the Norwegian Bar Human Rights Committee and of Amnesty International in Norway. He was named persona non grata by the Turkish Government nearly a decade ago following public comments which were interpreted as ‘hostile’. Prior to his latest trip, however, it was understood from communications with the Interior Ministry and Turkish diplomats that he would be allowed to visit. In the event, he was told at Istanbul airport that he would never be permitted entry and was put on the next plane returning to Europe. No reason was given for the decision.
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