Kurdish – Arseh Sevom

February 2, 2021

Barbed wire on gray background. Text reads: "URGENT INTERNATIONAL ACTION NEEDED TO SECURE RELEASE OF ARBITRARILY DETAINED KURDISH ACITVISTS"

February 2, 2021

Iran: Release Arbitrarily Detained Kurdish Activists

Arseh Sevom joins more than thirty organizations calling for the release of Kurdish activists. In the first month of 2021 alone, sources tell us that at least 96 individuals (88 men and 8 women) from Iran’s Kurdish minority have been arrested by the intelligence unit of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards or ministry of intelligence agents, sometimes violently.

August 16, 2016

Halt Executions of Kurdish Prisoners of Conscience in Iran

Iranian authorities have been executing Kurdish prisoners at an alarming rate. Arseh Sevom joins more than 20 organizations calling for an immediate halt to the execution of Kurdish political prisoners and prisoners of conscience.

May 28, 2011

Interview: Kurds in Syria

Alliance for Kurdish Rights has an interview with a Syrian-Kurd (KurdishFreeMan on Twitter), who discusses participation in the demonstrations and citizenship rights.

Syrian citizenship was taken from “foreign” Kurds in 1962 while they had it back then. Assad’s decree doesn’t “give back” Syrian citizenship to stateless Kurds, it “endows” it to them as if they were really foreigners not from Syria... Kurds are a victim of Sykes-Picot agreement which divided Kurdistan into four parts, we are not intruders. Kurds in Syria aren’t allowed to have schools to teach Kurdish, Kurds don’t have cultural, social or political rights in Syria.