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KHRP Case Finds Turkey in Violation of Right to Fair Trial |
KHRP welcomes the decision by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) to find Turkey in violation of Article 6 of the European Human Rights Convention (EHRC) with respect to the case of Emine Araç. The Court held that the judicial review of the decision to reject her university application due to her wearing of a headscarf was unfair.
Araç had originally studied at Inönü University. During that time, she wore a headscarf covering her hair and neck without any issues being raised about this. Due to her husband’s new job, they moved to Istanbul and she applied to transfer her studies to the Theology Faculty at the University of Marmara. Her application was accepted, but she was subsequently barred from registering as the photo she provided of herself did not have her head uncovered as required in the university’s regulations. She made an appeal to the Turkish Council of State which was rejected, but she was not allowed to see the Public Prosecutor’s opinion given the Council of State and therefore her lawyers could not comment on it in their submissions.
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Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History Available Through KHRP’s Online Shop |
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KHRP is pleased to offer for sale a limited number of copies of Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History, published by University of Chicago Press.
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KHRP Publishes Briefing Paper on Turkish Anti-Terror Legislation |
KHRP is pleased to announce the publication of its latest briefing paper, Turkey’s Anti-Terror Laws: Threatening the Protection of Human Rights.
Amendments to Turkish anti-terror legislation in 2006 brought into effect a series of draconian provisions which fail to meet the country’s human rights obligations under international law and which have in practice been used to violate the human rights of it citizens. In particular, the new law fails to respect international human rights obligations by containing a definition of terrorism which is too wide and vague, by increasing the range of crimes that can count as terrorist offences, and by posing a serious threat to the freedoms of expression and association, the right to a fair trial, and the prohibition of torture. Such legislation only serves to further the deterioration seen in the human rights situation in Turkey since 2005 and should therefore be amended.
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Iran Prisoners Mount Hunger Strike |
Some 200 Kurdish prisoners of conscience in Iran are undertaking a hunger strike to protest against use of the death penalty and the prevalence of torture in detention centres throughout the country.
The individuals involved are spread across a number of locations including jails in Kermanshah, Saghez, Mahabad and Uromieh, as well as Rajai Shahr prison and Tehran’s notorious Evin prison.
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Death Sentence Against Iranian Journalist Overturned |
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KHRP is glad to report that the Tehran Supreme Court has overturned a death sentence against the Kurdish journalist Adnan Hassanpour, whose case we have highlighted in communications with United Nations human rights mechanisms and in our public reporting since his arrest last year.
Following his arrest in Marivan in January 2007, Hassanpour and Hiwa Butimar, a colleague of his who had been detained shortly before, were accused of acts against national security. Family members were unable to discover the whereabouts of the two men for long periods following their arrest. They reportedly had only very limited access to legal council and are believed to have been tortured in custody. Both Hassanpour and Butimar have been on hunger strike to protest the circumstances of their detention.
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