Archive for the ‘Kurdistan’ Category

Strike in Kurdistan in Memory of Qasemlu

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

After a month of organization, the major towns and cities of Kurdistan were shut down by a general strike on the twentieth anniversary of the assassination of Abdol-Rahman Qasemlu , the leader of the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran (KDP (Iran)). This action was organized preceded by efforts by Kurdish activists in different cities. This is the fifth of these annual protests. Not all of them met with much success at all. The strike which was promised in 2006 was hastily converted to a three-minute black-out. And there is no visible sign of the earlier protests.

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General Strike in Kurdistan

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
Kurdish demonstration before the election

Kurdish demonstration before the election

Kurdistan is quiet, but the Kurds are not sitting back. Concern over demonstrations in the security and political world in the Kurdish cities is high. The people have determined to shut down the bazaar and shops in protest against the announced results of the elections and in solidarity with the people of Tehran.
A call for a general strike on Tuesday has been issued by the human rights organization, the Writer’s Guild, and student activists and political activists from Kurdistan.Click here to see the rest of the article.

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