Yazidi Legal Network

We are a community of Yazidis, lawyers, human rights activists, law students interested in justice for the Yazidis.

[Argos @argosonderzoekt]

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Khalid Barkat ontvluchtte op zijn 16e het IS-geweld in Sinjar. Nu reist hij terug naar zijn geboorteplek om te zien hoe het gaat met de wederopbouw. Wie bekommert zich om de Jezidi's en wat doet Nederland?

📻 https://t.co/kmtEjq75yR

[Yazidi Legal Network @YazidiLN]

Are you interested in accountability for the crimes committed against the Yazidi in NL? Would you like to know what the NL war crimes unit does? Would you like to familiarize yourself with the work of the Dutch Public Prosecution Service?

Email us 👉 [email protected]

[Yazidi Legal Network @YazidiLN]

...committed by ISIS, as well as the challenges.

[Yazidi Legal Network @YazidiLN]

Last week, @HRikkelman spoke before the Dutch Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee about the situation of the Yazidis. She spoke about bridging the gap between the Yazidi community and justice mechanisms with a focus on the Netherlands.
https://t.co/QdS5CtvU35

[Yazidi Legal Network @YazidiLN]

Important is that all actors involved support a victim centered approach. Together with colleagues Dr. Marieke De Hoon, Professor Harmen van der Wilt, Tanya Mehra and Pari Ibrahim, they discussed options for accountability for the perpetrators of the Yazidi genocide...

[Yazidi Legal Network @YazidiLN]

Is NL doing enough for victims of Genocide? @argosonderzoekt went to Sinjar and spoke to survivors. What do they know about the Dutch promise to actively search for testimonies for potential criminal trials? And how does that work in practice?

🎧 https://t.co/IKQUWMjgfn

[Yazidi Legal Network @YazidiLN]

human trafficking and exploitation of Yazidis, and facilitating the financing of terrorism through the trafficking of Yazidis. This request for investigation targets several platforms.

Report:
https://t.co/ZPCMn5Ta44

[Yazidi Legal Network @YazidiLN]

Earlier this month, @NLHelptYezidis launched a Yezidi genocide campaign. The organization called and demanded an international investigation and prosecution of technology and social media entities globally for aiding and abetting ISIS in reprisals, torture, enslavement, 1/2

[Yazidi Legal Network @YazidiLN]

The genocide against the Yazidis has led to large-scale destruction of the Yazidi identity amongst children. In this blog, we discuss the concept of right to identity in the context of genocide, and its violations in the context of the ISIS assault.

https://t.co/QDp66DqPkB

[Yazidi Legal Network @YazidiLN]

On the occasion of International Human Rights Day, ICMP brought together Yazidi families of the missing to discuss the issue of missing persons from ISIS crimes, and to commemorate those who disappeared, with a memorial concert and photography exhibition: https://t.co/qQxLlBElUK

[Yazidi Legal Network @YazidiLN]

The #genocide against the #Yazidi community in 2014 led to multiple harms, a prominent one being widespread displacement and its repercussions to the community. In our latest blog we explain the effects of the #displacement.

Blog: https://t.co/0QoAUARItm

[Yazidi Legal Network @YazidiLN]

Earlier this week an ISIS member, Taha AJ was sentenced to life in jail for genocide against the Yazidi's. This is the first genocide verdict against an ISIS member and therefore an enormous win for survivors of the the genocide and Yazidi's in general. #JusticeForYazidi

[Pieter Omtzigt @PieterOmtzigt]

‘ISIS Genocide’ betekent vervolgen Nederlandse ISIS-leden’

Mijn ingezonden stuk
Pleidooi voor een speciale officier van justitie in Nederland

https://t.co/UlsqgxZUFz via @ewmagazinenl

[Yazidi Legal Network @YazidiLN]

Earlier this week she spoke with a Dutch news channel. She and her siblings have spent almost their entire life in NL, they speak Dutch and have Dutch friends. NL is violating A. 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which protects the right to private and family life.

[Yazidi Legal Network @YazidiLN]

Milena (14 years) has lived in The Netherlands for 12 years with her family. But, after all these years waiting for their papers, the Dutch government wants to deport them back to Armenia. At the moment she lives with her family of six in an attic room of 15 square meters.

[Yazidi Legal Network @YazidiLN]

Earlier this week the Higher Regional Court in Munich, Germany sentenced the German national Jennifer W., wife of an ISIS fighter to 10 years.

Statement YLN and @FaridaglobalOrg: https://t.co/Prb3sNsnIx

[Yazidi Legal Network @YazidiLN]

Last Monday a German IS-woman was sentenced to 10 years in prison for, among other things, the death of a 5-year-old Yazidi child.

You can read the full article (in Dutch) via: https://t.co/B8QzriZfaC

[Yazidi Legal Network @YazidiLN]

Live Tweede Kamer session - On Yezidi's and what the Dutch government can do to help them: https://t.co/f28DuWlpQW

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We call on the Dutch government to stop this unfair deportation. @ankiebroekers @AnneKuik @RobJetten @SigridKaag @markrutte