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11:35

Emine Şenyaşar keeps demanding justice for her killed relatives despite the silence of the authorities.

11:00

Feminist group FiLiA has organized women across multiple countries to fast for the freedom of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who has been jailed in Iran since 2016.

10:30

Many girls and women are sexually abused by doctors in Egypt. We spoke to several of these women, who say they were sexually abused during medical exams by doctors.

14:43

The three-day tent protest organized at the Martyr Egid Square in Kobanî as part of the “Dem Dema Azadiye (Now is the time for freedom)” protests has ended.

14:22

The UN Women’s Gender Innovation Agora Forum has organized a traveling photography exhibition to tell the stories of women, who were subjected to violence, abuse, and rape. “We try to raise awareness about gender-based violence,” Shaima Hamad, a member of the forum, told us.

13:08

Emine Şenyaşar, who has demanded justice for her killed relatives in front of the Urfa Courthouse for 288 days, has been summoned to testify for the 11th time for allegedly “insulting a public official”.

09:20

Drawing attention to the barriers against journalists and citizen journalists working on the street, the lawyer Sevgi Kalan says, “Everyone who wants can conduct street interviews. They need to ask permission only from the interviewed person before recording an interview.”

15:40

47 political prisoners held in the Urmia Prison have been on a hunger strike for days in protest of being transferred to a high-security ward and rights violations in the prison.

14:38

The Şenyaşar family applied to the Urfa Governor´s Office in order to set up a tent in front of the Urfa Courthouse due to cold weather but their demand has been rejected.

15:20

Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Batman MP Feleknas Uca issued a press statement to celebrate all Yazidis’ Cêjna Êzî (Feast of Ezid), “I hope for all abducted women to be saved from ISIS,” she said in the statement.

11:52

“There can be no peace and even bread without justice,” say Emine Şenyaşar and her son Ferit Şenyaşar, who have demanded justice for their killed relatives in front of the Urfa Courthouse for 284 days.

09:10

Afghan woman Derya Alizei fled from Afghanistan with her family. They walked from Afghanistan to Turkey. “We were subjected to harassment and violence on the way. Many Afghan women in Van were detained and sent to removal centers. We struggle to survive now,” she told us.

15:00

Emine Şenyaşar and her son Ferit Şenyaşar have demanded justice in front of the Urfa Courthouse for 283 days.

11:20

Gizem Miran, the Co-Chair of the Diyarbakır Bar Association’s Prison Commission, draws attention to the condition of sick prisoners, who cannot access health services in prison, “Their right to life is being violated. Ministry of Justice should implement national and international laws and regulation.”

14:05

Free Women’s Movement (TJA) issued a written statement about the suspicious deaths of Halil Güneş, Abdulrezzak Şuyur, and Garibe Gezer in prison. “We, as Kurdish women’s movement, didn’t accept the male-dominant state’s special war policies and we will not accept,” the TJA writes in the statement.

12:40

The sit-in protest staged by Emine Şenyaşar and her son Ferit Şenyaşar in front of the Urfa Courthouse to demand justice for their killed relatives has entered its 282nd day today. “Justice will prevail against the law of the superiors,” says the Şenyaşar family.

13:50

Iranian women have started a petition online against forced premarital virginity tests in Iran. 25,000 people have already signed the petition.

13:00

The Şenyaşar family continues to hold their sit-in protest in front of the Urfa Courthouse to demand justice for their killed relatives.

12:40

Feminists held a seminar in Algeria to mark the 61st anniversary of the December 11, 1960 demonstrations in Algeria. “Women were everywhere. They fought the enemy by themselves. The issue of freedom and equality was their cause for a long time,” said one of the participants.

08:20

Alf Ba Civilization and Coexistence Foundation launched a project in Yemen to increase the participation of young people in every part of life.