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KHRP Highlights The Ongoing Unrest in Syria

KHRP is alarmed by the Syrian regime’s violent response to its citizens for expressing their dissatisfaction with their government. The repression and threats are unlikely to bring any stability and are more likely to further escalate the situation.  In the Kurdish region, expression of identity as well as any dissent has long been suppressed with violence by the state. Indeed, the KHRP has met with various European governments’ immigration agencies that have been flooded with asylum applications in recent years because of the brutal repression Kurds face by the Syrian state to discuss the grounds for such applications. KHRP hears of stories on a weekly basis of varying human rights violations including: arbitrary arrest and detention; torture whilst in detention; the inability to contact family or loved ones; deaths in custody and unlawful killings at demonstrations. 

KHRP believes the Syrian government is missing an opportunity to allow its people to have a voice in their governance.  Instead of blaming outsiders or making threats against protesters, the government should be looking to lift the state of emergency law that has been in place since the Baathist have been in power and allow for free expression and political dissent.

In response to the situation, KHRP Chief Executive Kerim Yildiz stated today ‘Syria could use this rare moment in history to make right some of its past wrongs by re-instating citizenship rights to the approximately 300,000 Kurds who were stripped of their citizenship rights by a decree in the 1960s.  The Syrian government, like all governments, has a responsibility to its people that includes respecting their fundamental human rights.  It extremely unfortunate that it continues to choose a path that can only lead to further unlawful violence and rights violations. KHRP calls on the international community to use its good offices with governments and businesses who have a channel of communication with this regime to state in no uncertain terms that respect for human rights is fundamental and integral to all dealings with the outside world.’

 


FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:
Kerim Yildiz / Rachel Bernu
Kurdish Human Rights Project
11 Guilford Street, London, WC1N 1DH
Tel: 020 7405 3835
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www.khrp.org

The Kurdish Human Rights Project (KHRP) is a UK registered charity committed to the promotion and protection of the human rights of all persons living within the Kurdish regions.  Its innovative and strategic approach to international human rights practice, combined with a long-term and consistent presence in the region, enables it to secure redress for survivors of human rights violations and prevent abuse in the future.

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