News Center- Kurdistan Free Women's Movement (RJAK) members Xewla Mihemed Hesen, Ciwana Abdulbaqî, and Seyran Ehmed Hesen attended the commemoration event held in Shengal for the anniversary of the genocide against Yazidis by ISIS on August 3, 2014. After attending the commemoration, they returned to Hewlêr the capital of the Southern Kurdistan Region. The KDP forces detained them there. No news has been received from the women for 23 days and the KDP hasn’t issued a statement regarding the detention of women yet.

Necbir Efrîn, a member of the RJAK Diplomacy, spoke to our news agency and she told us that they are concerned about the health of their members and that they have taken steps to have information about their members but they haven’t received a response until now.

They are deprived of their liberty

Necbir Efrîn told us they had demanded to meet their detained members but they demand were rejected. “Until now, no legal process has been carried out about their detention. Their lawyers aren’t allowed to see them. Our friends don’t have the right to counsel now. They try to intimidate us by using such methods. They try to illegalize the works of our friends.  They are deprived of their liberty.”