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13:20

In the Federal Kurdistan Region, women have been facing arbitrary arrests to be silenced.

14:15

Father killed his three-year-old son named Osman to punish his wife. Human rights activists draw attention to the fact that children are subjected to violence to discipline due to the gap in Yemeni law.

10:30

Peace Mothers and the relatives of prisoners, who held a sit-in protest to support the hunger strikes that started in prisons in November 2018 and ended in May 2019, were battered and insulted by police many times. The mothers, who had been subjected to police violence, filed a criminal complaint against police officers. While the Governor's Office didn’t allow an investigation to be opened on the ground that the police violence against the mothers “did not constitute a criminal offense”, the mothers’ lawyers applied to the Court of Appeal but the court ruled the same thing. The lawyers will apply to the Constitutional Court.

13:53

Egyptian women activists warn against the alarming rise in the cases of female genital mutilation (FGM) in the country. “The policy of immunity causes more women to undergo this practice.”

11:56

The and hearing of the trial against Leyla Güven, the co-chair of the Democratic Society Congress (DTK) who has been held in the Elazığ Women’s Closed Prison, on the charge of terror propaganda was held today. During the hearing, Leyla Güven learned that another indictment has been prepared against her. The next hearing will be held on April 11.

12:40

Journalist Nurcan Yalçın has been detained.

16:22

Şükran Akboğa, a member of Diyarbakır Peace Mothers Council, has been taken into custody after the police raid on her house. She has reportedly suffered from a stroke for days.

13:20

For two years, prisoners are kept in the 15-day quarantine when they are transferred back from hospitals to prisons. This practice has turned into torture for sick prisoners because they are kept in single cells alone for 15 or 20 days and they cannot meet their basic needs. The relatives of sick prisoners demand the quarantine period be arranged in a way that does not affect the sick prisoners.

11:05

Cairo Foundation for Development and Law has launched many awareness-raising campaigns to support Egyptian women. The aim of the foundation is to eliminate gender-based violence. “Although we faced many y challenges in carrying out our activities in 2021, we will work harder this year to support women,” Intisar al-Saeed, the director of the Cairo Foundation for Development and Law, told NuJINHA.

09:20

The investigation launched into the suspicious death of Ayşe Tayurak in Silvan was closed. The prosecutor decided not to prosecute the suspicious death of Ayşe Tayurak because Adem Tayurak's weight and physical characteristics showed that he couldn’t kill Ayşe Tayurak. In the decision, the prosecutor ignored the 25 years of systematic violence against Ayşe Tayurak by Adem Tayurak.

10:15

We spoke to lawyer Nafusa Hasso, also a member of the Women’s Justice Council, about gender-based violence, femicide, and the pressure on women in the name of tradition in NE Syria. Pointing out that no reason can justify femicide and violence against women, Nafusa Hasso emphasized that perpetrators should not go unpunished.

13:10

Basma Soussi, feminist activist and vice-president of the Ibsar Association for the Culture and Leisure of blind and visually handicapped people, stated that women with disabilities in Tunisia face problems both in working life and in social life, “Women's movements must work coordinately for women's rights. Women with disabilities should be supported more particularly in the countries suffering from war-conflicts,” she said.

09:30

Seven months ago, Nurcan Kaplan, who applied for protective order 12 times against her husband, and her mother Nezire Demir were attacked by her husband, Tarık Kaplan, with a gun. Lawyer Zelal Erdemci told us that an indictment has been prepared against the perpetrator, who went to kill two women, for “deliberately” killing and injuring women not for “by planning”.

13:55

Stating that women’s rights are not guaranteed in the Syrian constitutions and women are ignored in Syria, Ster Qasim, member of the North and East Syrian Women's Council Coordination, said that women in Northern and Eastern Syria have been writing the laws that concern them.

09:42

The Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (HRFT) Istanbul representative Ümit Efe spoke to NuJINHA about the conditions of prisoners and she said, “2021 was a year when allegations of violence, torture, ill-treatment, and harassment in prisons were intense.”

11:02

Peace Mother Hadle Oğur was arrested while attending her daughter’s commemoration ceremony. At the hearing of the trial against her, the judge asked her, “Why did you attend your daughter’s commemoration ceremony?” She has faced three years and 15 days prison sentence for attending her daughter’s commemoration ceremony.

10:35

Yemeni journalist and media activist Hala Fouad Badawi has been arrested over her reports and social media posts. Lawyer and a human rights defender Afraa Al-hariri told NuJINHA that the rights of Hala Fouad Badawi have been violated since she was arrested.

10:09

Human Rights Association (IHD) Istanbul Branch Chairperson Gülseren Yoleri spoke to NuJINHA about the situation of jailed politician Aysel Tuğluk and sick prisoners. Holding sick people in prisons is “murder”, she said.

09:50

We spoke to Ahlem Belhadj, a member of the Tunisian Association of the Democratic Women (ATFD), about their works and goals.

09:48

Violence against women has been increasing in Algeria especially after the Covid-19 outbreak. Algerian women demand the implementation of anti-violence laws, the punishment of perpetrators of violence, support to victims of violence, and awareness-raising activities to be carried out in order to prevent gender-based violence in the country.