Today, thousands of people from Qamishlo are taking to the streets. As part of the global day of action in defense of the YPJ and women’s rights, people are demonstrating for a free and democratic life.
Rojihlat Afrin addresses society.
Jin. Jiyan. Azadi.
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#DefendRojava
The festive candles embrace the graves of the martyrs and reaffirm the promise of loyalty.
It is a tradition to light candles at the graves of the fallen martyrs on the night before Eid.
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The families of the abductees held by the Damascus government are staging a sit-in in the city of Kobani, demanding release of their children and rejecting any bargaining over the issue of the abductees.
The Damascus government, continues to delay the release of the abductees.
Our language reflects our existence.
15 May is the day of the Kurdish language. A language that was recognized in the Self-Administration of North and East Syria for years and for whose recognition the Kurdish people are now struggling again today.
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My 15 minutes of fame;
I actually interviewed Steve Harris, founding member of Iron Maiden years ago and it got played on a local radio station.
The rock chick years 😹
'Israel no longer viewed as threat by most Gulf countries, regardless of Palestinian issue', clear, explicit acknowledgment by Emirati foreign policy expert, top government advisor Anwar Gargash during video intervention at World Policy Conference.
That'll rattle a few cages 😼
Let’s stop pretending this is complicated. It isn’t.
A male prisoner, convicted of a brutal murder, is being housed in the women’s estate. An allegation of sexual assault has now been made. And still we are expected to believe this is a “managed risk”.
It is not a managed risk. It is a foreseeable outcome.
You do not need hindsight to see this. You only need honesty. Women in custody are not a neutral population. They are among the most vulnerable in society. The vast majority have experienced physical or sexual abuse. Many carry long histories of trauma.
Addiction is endemic. In Scotland, the majority proportion of women in prison have drug or alcohol problems, and many have co-occurring mental health needs. These are not abstract statistics. They describe women who have already been harmed, often repeatedly, long before they ever entered a cell.
And into that environment, the state has chosen to introduce male-bodied prisoners.
That is not safeguarding. That is exposure.
What we are witnessing is not a failure of risk assessment. It is a failure of principle.
For years, the Scottish Prison Service has insisted it can assess individuals and safely place male prisoners in the female estate. That claim was always untenable. You cannot assess away biological reality. You cannot eliminate risk through forms and panels. And you cannot guarantee safety in an environment where the consequences of getting it wrong are this grave.
And now, predictably, we are here.
The most disturbing aspect is not the allegation itself, serious as it is. It is the inevitability of the response. There will be calls for calm. Assertions that the system works. Claims that this is an isolated incident.
It is not isolated. It is structural.
When policy elevates ideology above reality, harm stops being a failure and becomes the price paid to sustain the model. We know this only too well in Scotland’s addiction system, where harm reduction has shifted from a tool into an orthodoxy, and the consequences have followed accordingly.
And here, that cost is being paid by women who have no say in where they are housed, who they are housed with, or what risks they are expected to tolerate.
No civilised system should ask women, many of whom are already survivors of male violence, to accept that risk as the price of someone else’s identity claim.
This is not about prejudice. It is about duty of care. It is about safeguarding. It is about the most basic obligation of the state to protect those it holds in custody.
Until that principle is restored, cases like this will not be shocking.
They will be inevitable.
The Scottish government is responsible for this sexual assault. The Supreme Court has confirmed women’s right to single sex spaces, a ruling the SNP continues to flout. If the victim wishes to sue, https://t.co/iyohnrgVZN can assist with all costs.
Anniversary of YPJ.
13 years of establishing YPJ, 13 years of fighting for liberation, 13 years of dedication and sacrifice. We take a look back at this history.
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3 YPJ fighters were laid to rest in Kobane.
Today the people of Kobane bid farewell to three YPJ martyrs, Siyajîn (Diyala Koror), Cûdî Rojhilat (Culyana Sîdo) and Nûdem Ararat (Dilvîn Hiso). Each one of them is a promise to continue on the path of resistance and freedom.
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Ah yes the 'protection' for minorities in the 'new' Syria. Freedom of expression of course, but it's gotta be the kind of expression the radicals like. This is a warning to the World of radical Islam.
🙈🙉🙊 Don't wait until this happens on your doorstep.
Wouldn't trust Jolani mob as far as I could throw them.
Been an ethnic minority slaughter fest.
Don't trust how they would behave around a female regiment.
Protection for women and ethnic minorities must be a priority.
Don't trust them, watch your backs at all times.
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