HUMAN RIGHTS

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• Seven Kurdish detainees from Mahabad released on bail, six others remain in custody 

  After their arrest, the detainees were transferred to the Ministry of Intelligence detention centre in Orumiyeh, where they were subjected to weeks of harsh physical and psychological torture in order to extract confessions.
• Lawyer Erdoğan: The issue of ill prisoners must be solved 

  Lawyer Yusuf Erdoğan called for an urgent solution to the unlawful detention of ill prisoners.
• IHD :87% disabled prisoner Aladağ must be released immediately 

  The Human Rights Association Iğdır branch has called for the immediate release of severely ill prisoner Emin Aladağ, held in Elazığ No. 1 High-Security Prison, citing his worsening health condition.
• Prisoner Toprak sees his release postponed after spending 30 years in jail 

  Metin Toprak has been in prison for 30 years. His release was postponed for 9 months on the grounds that he did not show “remorse”. He remains in Kırıklar Prison.
• Iran sentences two filmmakers to prison  

  Iran has sentenced Maryam Moghadam and Behtash Sanaeeha, directors of the film ‘My Favourite Cake,’ to prison.
• Kütük: Police brutally tortured my innocent son 

  Candan Kütük said that police brutally beat her son, who attempted to save a woman from police violence in Saraçhane.
• Iran executes five prisoners 

  The Iranian judiciary has executed five people accused of belonging to banned Sunni Muslim groups. At least 245 people have been executed since the beginning of the year.
• 14,478 people jailed in the past three months 

  Turkey’s prison population grew by 14,478 over the past three months, surpassing capacity by nearly 100,000.
• Lawyer Alpsoy: Judicial control measure is a restriction of people's rights and freedoms 

  Lawyer Şükrü Alpsoy said that the recent frequent use of judicial control decisions has become a restriction of people's fundamental rights and freedoms, and pointed out that this practice also leads to many rights violations.
• IHD holds action for prisoner Hatice Onaran 

  The IHD petitioned for the release of Hatice Onaran and an end to judicial repression against human rights defenders.
• Sedat Avşar released from prison after 30 years  

  Sedat Avşar was released from Antep H Type Closed Prison after 30 years of imprisonment.
• At least 59 people hanged in March in Iran; 230 executions recorded in 2025 

  In March 2025, at least 59 people including five women, were executed in Iranian prisons. Three Afghan nationals, seven Baluch and one Kurdish minority were amongst those executed.
• AI: Massacres of Alawite civilians in Syria must be investigated as war crimes 

  The latest massacres targeting the Alawite minority create new scars in a country already burdened by too many unhealed wounds. Without justice, Syria risks falling back into a cycle of further atrocities and bloodshed”.
• Kara: This is the time to raise the struggle 

  Bank worker Dilara Kara, who was unjustly arrested during the recent protests in Turkey, stated that the crackdown has only made them stronger.
• 'The death sentence against Warisha Moradi must be annulled immediately' 

  Kurdish activist Warisha Moradi, whose trial continues at Iran's Supreme Court, is at risk of imminent execution.
• HRW urges Iran to release Narges Mohammadi and all other arbitrarily detained rights activists 

  The authorities should immediately end the ongoing harassment and unconditionally release Narges Mohammadi and everyone else arbitrarily detained for their human rights activism, HRW demands.
• Iran’s Supreme Court upholds death sentence for Kurdish political prisoner 

  Branch Nine of the Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence of Hamid Hosseinnezhad Heidaranlou, a Kurdish political prisoner from Chaldoran.
• Human rights defenders: The state must take action 

  Legal and human rights advocates in Urfa called on the state to respond to the 'Call for Peace and a Democratic Society' by releasing political prisoners.
• Three workers victims of occupational homicides on first day of Eid al-Fitr 

  Three occupational homicides occurred on the first day of the holiday for the end of Ramadan, Eid al-Fitr.
• Kurdish political prisoner transferred without justification, family fears new charges 

  The political prisoner’s abrupt transfer to Orumiyeh Central Prison and renewed interrogation – despite the fact that his sentence is final – has alarmed his family, who fear that fabricated and new charges may be brought against him.
• IHD calls for release of ill prisoners Uğur Ok and Adnan Öztel 

  Actions and events for the release of ill prisoners Uğur Ok and Adnan Öztel continued in Ankara and Istanbul.
• IHD: Detainees were subjected to torture and ill-treatment 

  The Ankara Branch of the IHD denounced serious human rights violations against protesters who demonstrated against the detention of Ekrem Imamoğlu.
• IHRNGO: Islamic Republic’s report on 2022 protests undermines truth and accountability 

  One of the report’s key claims is the denial of any physical assault on Jina Mahsa Amini—a claim made without releasing all CCTV footage or cooperating with the UN fact-finding committee
• Asrın Law Office calls for urgent CPT visit to Imrali in its four-month report 

  In its four-month report on Imrali, Asrın Law Office said that 52 applications for family and lawyer visits to Abdullah Öcalan and other prisoners had been ignored. The lawyers urged the CPT to visit Imrali "urgently".
• Kurdish and Azerbaijani human rights groups call for unity following provocation in Urmia 

  “Urmia must not be allowed to become a battleground for extremist religious and nationalist forces, a breeding ground for violence against civilians, or a platform for spreading hatred and division,” say Kurdish and Azerbaijani human rights groups.