Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday rejected a European Court of Human Rights’ ruling that Kurdish leader Selahattin Demirtas should be released, saying Turkey was not bound by the court’s decisions. Demirtas, a former co-chief of the leftist pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), has been imprisoned since November 2016 ...
The upcoming parliamentary elections in Bahrain, scheduled for November 24, 2018, are occurring in a repressive political environment that is not conducive to free elections, Human Rights Watch said today. “Bahrain’s allies should encourage the Bahraini government to take all the necessary steps to reform laws undermining freedom of expression ...
