The Court of Cassation’s decision comes as a shock to the family members of the Badinan prisoners and as well as to the Iraqi Kurdistan’s independent journalists and civil society.
Please pray for the release of more than 20 journalists and civil rights activists from the Badinan region of Iraqi Kurdistan.
CPT’s report examines how the Kurdish government is stifling the freedom of expression,
Please pray for the Badinan prisoners and their families.
We pray that the new year brings the changes that CPT’s partners in Iraqi Kurdistan desire and hope for so much: life without the threat of bombardment and freedom without fear to stand up against oppression.
We were Sunni Muslim, Yezidi, and Christian. We were two CPTers and two Kurdish Iraqi companions, and had been on a trip together to learn
Please pray for an end to escalating hostilities between the Iraqi Kurdistan government and guerrilla forces and for the safety of CPT’s partners caught in-between. Â
Please pray for CPT IK partner Sherwan Sherwani and his family. On 7 October 2020, an armed and unidentified group abducted Sherwan Sherwani in his
On 20 August 2020, Turkish soldiers from one of their military bases in Gar and Xalat opened fire on Shapan village in the sub-district of
7 October 2020 by Weldon D. Nisly “We should talk as long as we are alive. When my life ends, let my friends mark a