Hundreds of lawyers stand up for the rights of Abdullah Öcalan and his fellow prisoners on the Turkish prison island İmralı Brussels, 14/09/2022 | İmralı F is a closed maximum security prison on İmralı Island off the Turkish coast in the Sea of Marmara for individuals. It was built in February 1999 specifically for [...]
[Zur deutschsprachigen Version hier klicken] On 22 July 2022, Ethiopian activists demonstrated in front of the Italian Embassy in Brussels at the corner of Rue du Commerce and Rue Joseph II. The demonstrators accused the Italian government of providing hidden political, financial and military support to the Ethiopian central government in the armed conflict [...]
On 17 April 2022, in the shadow of the Russian war against Ukraine, which was illegal under international law, Nato member Turkey launched a major military offensive in northern Iraq against the Kurds living in the region, which was also illegal under international law. This offensive is still continuing. In view of the Nato [...]
In a press release dated 17 May 2022, the Brussels-based Kurdish National Congress (KNK) published a letter to the UN Secretary-General. The senders call on the UN not to recognise the current attacks on Kurds and Yesids in northern Iraq and northern Syria as self-defence in the sense of Article 51 of the UN [...]
In the shadow of the Russian war against Ukraine, which is against international law, Turkey launched a major military offensive in northern Iraq against the Kurds living in the region on 17 April 2022. At the same time, attacks against the Kurdish population in northern Syria continue. We reproduce below the press release published [...]
Since this weekend (2/3 April 2022), war crimes committed by Russian soldiers in the territories occupied by them have been intensively reported. Especially in suburbs of Kyiv, such as Butcha, from which the Ukrainian army was able to push back Russian troops, several hundred murdered civilians were found. Even if there is no final [...]
For some time now, the European Union has been dealing with the regulation of digital currencies (cryptocurrencies). Two committees of the European Parliament were involved with the European Commission's bill: The Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) and the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON). On 31 March 2022, both [...]
The European Commission wants to present a draft law on the control of e-mail, chat or messaging services by 30 March. This is intended to make it easier for law enforcement authorities to fight child abuse and child pornography. However, general monitoring of the above-mentioned services undermines encrypted, secure communication on the internet. For [...]
On 30 March 2022, the European Commission will present a draft law on the control of chat services. This will affect all providers of email, chat or messaging services. They are supposed to search for suspicious messages in a fully automated way so that law enforcement agencies can act more efficiently against child pornography. [...]
Rob Hopkins is one of the founder of the transition town movement and one of the most important activists and philosopher of it. Click here to got to the blog of Rob Hopkins. Rob Hopkins [...]
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