UN Office at Geneva to debate Paris killings

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Firat News

The execution of three Kurdish politicians in Paris on 9 January will be debated at the United Nations Human Rights Council's twenty-second regular session at the UN Office at Geneva from 25 February to 22 March.

Sakine Cansız, a co-founder of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Fidan Doğan, representative of the Kurdistan National Congress (KNK) in Paris, and Leyla Şaylemez, member of the Kurdish youth movement, were killed in Paris on 9 January. No light has been shed yet by French authorities on the execution of three Kurdish women, Sara, Rojbin and Ronahi.

Gianfranco Fattorini, UN Representative of French NGO, Movement Against Racism and for Friendship between Peoples (MRAP) will be directing questions to the UN mechanisms on the issue.

MRAP said in a statement that “These extrajudicial executions should be handled in the scope of the long-lasting conflict between the Turkish government and the Kurdish minority whose civil, political, social, cultural and economic rights have been persistently violated, and the peace talks the government has recently initiated with the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) to end the conflict in the country”.

MRAP remarked that “It is important to launch an expansive and objective judicial procedure for the protection of the peace process that these killings have aimed to sabotage”.

MRAP called on relevant French authorities to “lead the criminal investigation into the obviously motivated political incident in an open, urgent and comprehensive way”.

MRAP also called on the UN special rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers to enable the disclosure of the investigation's results to the public and urged the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions to lead an investigation into the murder of three Kurdish women.

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