TURKEY | 30 – 12 – 2009 | Another 24 people have been taken into custody in the Turkish cities of Van and Batman. The total number of arrests throughout the last week in the scope of the operation against Peace and Democracy Party mounts to 47 people. The Peace Council of Turkey criticized the course of action. A further ...

ISTANBUL | 24 – 12 – 2009 | Our representatives and workers who intended to make a public meeting at the Bosporus Bridge were arrested. Since 5 month the workers of the Esenyurt municipality were laid of their jobs for being members of the municipality union. They are since 127 days on strike. The workers from BIMTAS Company are on ...

INDIA | 24 – 12 – 2009 | The Forum Against War on People organised the “Rally Against War on People”, to protest against the brutal military offensive of the Indian state on the tribal people of central and eastern India through the Operation Green Hunt where in lakhs of the paramilitary-military as well as various vigilante gangs such as ...

TURKEY | 20 – 12 – 2009 | After the negotiations in the White House between Obama and the Turkish PM Erdogan on December 7th, it was stated that there have been many “NEW” tasks given to Turkey, also called the “right arm of the US”. The US, who turned the Middle East into a blood bath has in order ...

PARİS | 20 – 12 – 2009 | In Paris the International Committee For The Solidarity of Political Prisoners, European Solidarity Committee for Free Political Prisoners, Solidarity Committee with Prisoners of Freedom, Democratic Rights Federations- France, BIR- KAR and the Committee for the live of Erol Zavar made a demonstration to commemorate the killed revolutionary prisoners and to condemn the ...

MUŞ | 18 – 12 – 2009 | After the closure of pro-Kurdish DTP, clashes occurred in the pre-dominantly Kurdish South-East of Turkey and also in Istanbul, claiming the lives of several people. A shop owner from Muş shot to the crowd right in front of the police, a person in Istanbul was paid to shoot. During protests against the ...

IAPL | 15 – 12 – 2009 | The International Association of People’s Lawyers (IAPL) strongly condemns the barbarian killings of the coordinators of the Brazil’s League of Poor Peasants (LCP), Élcio Machado, called Sabiá, and Gilson Gonçalves, on last December 7th, in the region of Buritis, state of Rondonia, north-western Brazil. At around 2 o’clock PM, Élcio and Gilson ...

ATIK | 13 – 12 – 2009 | The fascist state mentality of the Turkish ruling classes continues. The annihilating, segregation and denying policies continue. This reality was seen much clearer today. The so called ‘Kurdish solution’, ‘democratic solution’, ‘unity, togetherness, brotherhood project’ initiated by the state and the previous ruling party AKP’ showed with the closing of the DTP ...

BRAZİL | 13 – 12 – 2009 | On December 9, at 2 o’clock pm, two coordinators of the Poor Peasants League of Rondônia, northern Brazil (LCP / RO) were kidnapped by paramilitaries in the service of landowners, on the road linking the peasant camp called Rio Alto and the city Buritis, in the state of Rondônia. The coordinators Elcio ...

MIAMI | 10 – 12 – 2009 |  The re-sentencing proceedings for three of the five Cuban anti-terrorists concluded yesterday after a hearing in the Federal Court of this southern Florida city. Ramón Labañino Salazar was handed down a new prison term of 30 years and Fernando González Llort was sentenced to 17 years plus nine months. Although the new ...