Community Peacemaker Teams – Iraqi Kurdistan and its partners denounce the killing of children, wounding of farmers and targeting of villages by Turkish Forces in northern Iraq under the auspices of ‘Claw-Lock’ operation
Please pray for the prompt release of Mahmood Naji, Amjad Yusuf, Kovan Tariq, Yousuf Sharif and Nechir Badi so that they can return safely home.
Please pray for Kurdish activist Kak Aram who continues to speak out against injustices despite threats against his life.
Pray for Berivan, a civil rights activist from Badinan and a mother of five children, who stood trial after more than 17 months in detention. Pray for her family and the families of other Badinan prisoners, who must live without their loved ones.
Villagers in Kurdistan’s Nahla valley not only suffer from Turkish bombardments but are now subject to checkpoint controls, stigmatized by local government as collaborating with guerrilla presence in the region.
Each time the teachers drive to Hirure, they risk getting hit by artillery on the road.
CPT Iraqi Kurdistan team calls on the KRG authorities to release the detained journalists and protesters immediately.
“For 20 years, I served as a teacher and I never even hit a student. How could I have a military group? I wouldn’t even have time for it.”
Pray for their families who live with the trauma of having beloved family members arrested and imprisoned and having little or no access to them in prison or in court.
CPT stands in solidarity with the Badinan Prisoners and their families calling for the courts to take further steps to ensure the safeguarding of freedom of expression in Iraqi Kurdistan.