Documented Misuse of SLTD Database by Turkey Reported to Interpol
Solidarity with OTHERS has revealed fresh evidence proving Turkey’s abuse of Interpol systems to pursue political opponents abroad. An official letter from the Turkish Ministry of Justice to the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor, now disclosed, admits that Ankara falsely marked dissidents’ passports as “lost” or “stolen” in Interpol’s Stolen and Lost Travel Documents (SLTD) database, […]
Rights Talk 6 – Samuel Cogolati
In this interview with Samuel Cogolati, member of the Chamber of Representatives of Belgium, we have tackled the following questions: 1- When the Belgian state faces an extradition request, what kind of legal provisions would you take into account?2- Can we say that certain countries that we can describe as being governed by authoritarian regimes […]
Rights Talk 5 – Dr. Hannah Neumann
#RightsTalk – Episode 5 with Hannah Neumann, MEP and Vice-Chair of the Subcommittee on Human Rights (1) In the report of your trip to Northeast Syria at the end of 2020, you mention human rights violations in territories controlled by Turkish troops since their incursion in 2019. Could you explain to us more specifically the […]
Webinar on digital gender violence and hate speech
On March 25, Solidarity with OTHERS organized an online panel discussion on online violence against women and girls, as a parallel event on the occasion of the 65th forum of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). Moderated by Dr. Merve Reyhan Kayıkçı from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the event included presentations by […]
Demonstration at the European Parliament to commemorate Mustafa Kabakçıoğlu
On October 31, Solidarity with OTHERS organized a demonstration in front of the European Parliament in Brussels to commemorate Mustafa Kabakçıoğlu, Turkish ex-police officer and political prisoner who lost his life behind bars in northeastern Turkey in late August. The event featured a white plastic chair, which represented the one on which Kabakçıoğlu’s lifeless body […]
Roundtable meeting on the Uyghur cause
Roundtable meeting on the Uyghur problem: From the origins of the crisis to the consequences on the diaspora On Wednesday 4 December 2019, Fedactio, Intercultural Dialogue Platform and Solidarity with OTHERS had the pleasure of hosting Professor Vanessa Frangville, sinologue and researcher from the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), for a roundtable discussion on the […]
International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women – 2019
Yesterday, we celebrated the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. The day was an occasion to raise awareness about the cases of rape, domestic violence and other types of violence that women around the world are subjected to. Here are some striking statistics on the matter: At least one third of the women in […]
World Children’s Day demonstration
On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Solidarity with OTHERS organised a brief exhibition on November 20, 2019 at the Luxembourg Square in Brussels, prior to the European Parliament’s High-Level Conference on the Rights of the Child. The demonstration aimed to raise awareness […]
Letter to Interpol: Warning Against Turkey’s Abuse of International Mechanisms
Solidarity with OTHERS has issued a letter to Interpol Secretary General Jürgen Stock, warning against Turkey’s continued abuse of international policing mechanisms to persecute political opponents. In our communication, we highlighted that the Turkish government is expected to shift tactics by requesting Red Notices on fabricated ordinary criminal charges after its previous terrorism-based requests failed […]
