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–Although the Kurdish people consist of less than 15% of the Iranian population, they also make up about half of the number of people executed and have [been] subjected to political persecution in the past 10 years.–Mohammad Sadiq Kaboudvand

Nobel Peace Center and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee invite to a seminar and the opening of a photo exhibition ‘Waiting Room’ by Linda Bournane Engelberth.

The seminar will discuss the recent invitation from the European Union to Belarus to join the Eastern Partnership, and how this invitation can bring Belarus into a process of much needed reforms.

Norwegian Parliament (called Stortinget) was due to host a luncheon for a visiting
delegation from the People´s Republic of China earlier this week, but the 20 April event turned into a
diplomatic standoff.

In Hakkari, where people are protesting against operations against the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP), one child has died, and a police officer violently beat another child with his rifle butt.

More than 40 Human Rights House Network members and observers from 18 countries will gather to the annual meeting in Oslo.

Mahmut Alinak, former Kars province (eastern Turkey) party chair of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP), is on trial and facing a possible prison sentence, for a letter he sent Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in which he said, “You have deceived the people of Kars.”

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The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on the Public Security Bureau in China’s Gansu province to disclose the whereabouts and legal status of Kunga Tsayang, a monk from the Amdo Labrang Tashi Kyil Monastery who has written online political commentary.