South Korea: Suspend those Gas Shipments! Three Ways You can Help
South Korea: Don’t Give Us Gas! With South Korea planning to ship 550,000 teargas canisters and grenades to Turkey next month, it is time to act. Please take action today! In a previous post, I...
View ArticleAmnesty on Turkey’s Worsening Human Rights Record: 11 Key Issues
At midnight tonight, Amnesty International issued its Annual Report, The State of the World’s Human Rights. There is grim reading throughout. This was a tough year for human rights worldwide. Below...
View ArticleAmnesty: Stop shipments of teargas to Turkey
South Korea: Don’t Give Us Gas! Amnesty International – Turkey has begun a twitter campaign today aimed at halting Korean shipments of teargas to Turkey. The campaign was sparked by new information of...
View ArticleAmnesty: 2015 witnessed continued assaults on Freedom of Assembly in Turkey
Demonstrators try to protect themselves from water, sprayed by a police water canon truck during clashes in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, May 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel} Amnesty International’s Annual...
View ArticleAmnesty: Drastic Increase in Allegations of Excessive Force in Turkey
Reuters: “Resistance: Turkish riot police fired watercannons, rubber pellets and teargas as a gay pride parade in Istanbul descended into violence Amnesty International highlighted a “dramatic...
View ArticleAmnesty issues report on displacement of hundreds of thousands in Turkey
Amnesty International has just issued an extensive and deeply researched 31 page report detailing “the desperate plight of families forced out of the historical centre of Diyarbakir” through...
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