2025-04-01T23:14:20+00:00 Shafaq News/ The Kurdistan Region of Iraq has granted temporary leave to over 50 inmates for the Eid al-Fitr holiday, the Directorate of Reform announced on Tuesday. The week-long leave applies to 52 prisoners ...

2025-04-01T23:09:41+00:00 Shafaq News/ On Tuesday, the Assyrian Democratic Movement called for the criminalization of hate speech and extremism in response to the attack on celebrants of the Babylonian-Assyrian New Year in Duhok. In a statement, ...

In its 62nd week, the ‘No to Executions Tuesdays’ campaign, which is participated by political prisoners in 38 prisons in Eastern Kurdistan and Iran, denounced the fact that the Iranian regime continues to carry out ...

On April 1, 2008, Kurdish filmmaker, photographer and guerrilla fighter Halil Uysal, also known as Halil Dağ, was martyred in an ambush by the Turkish army in the Besta region in the countryside of Şırnak ...

Considered to be one of the oldest festivals in the world, Akitu was born in the fertile lands of Mesopotamia and has been celebrated by different civilizations for thousands of years. Symbolizing the arrival of ...

The Human Rights Organization Syria-Afrin released the balance sheet of the crimes committed in Afrin in the month of March. The organization listed the crimes and violations committed in Afrin last month as follows: “11 ...

Iranian authorities are threatening to return the human rights defender and Nobel Peace Laureate Narges Mohammadi to prison to serve the remainder of her unjust sentence as a means to pressure her to cease her ...

Branch Nine of the Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence of Hamid Hosseinnezhad Heidaranlou, a Kurdish political prisoner from Chaldoran. The sentence, originally handed down in July 2024 by the Islamic Revolutionary Court of ...

The Youth Assembly of the Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) is staging a march from Amed (tr. Diyarbakır) to Amara, the birthplace of Abdullah Öcalan in the district of Halfeti, Urfa province. The ...

2025-04-01T21:32:11+00:00 Shafaq News/ The Kurdistan Region Security Council revealed the details of the “Akitu attack” that targeted Christian celebrants during the Babylonian-Assyrian New Year celebrations. In a statement, the council said, “A Syrian individual with ...