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Situation of Ethnic Minorities

Books & Reports

• COMMISSION BLAMES SUPRESSION OF KURDS ON IRAQ, IRAN, TURKEY, The Russian Information Agency ITAR-TASS TASS, January 29, 1995
  
• Kurdish rebels say Iran arrests 26 Kurds, Reuters World Service, October 10, 1995
  Kurdish Rebels Say Iran Executed Supporter, Reuters. 3 October 1995. BC Cycle (NEXIS)
  
• Kurdish rebels say Iran executed supporter, Reuters World Service, October 3, 1995
  
• Kurdish rebels say Iran executed six supporters, Reuters World Service
  Rebel Radio Commentary on Kurdish Struggles, Voice of Iranian Kordestan[Clandestine, in Persian]. 19 February 1995, (FBIS-NES-95-034 21 Feb. 1995, pp. 90-91)
  
• IRAN: DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF KORDESTAN ISSUES STATEMENT ON ARREST OF TWO KURDS, Source: Reuter Textline, BBC Monitoring Service: Middle East, February 18, 1995
  
• IRAN: KDPI ISSUES STATEMENT ON IRANIAN AIR RAIDS, Source: Reuter Textlin, BBC Monitoring Service: Middle East
  
• Urgent Action, Death Penalty, IRAN: Salim Saberniah, aged about 33Mustafa Ghaderi, aged about 31, Amnesty International, MDE 13/15/96, 30 April 1996.
  
• KDPI states 2 of it's members executed, Reuters, Mar 13, 1996.
  
• Response to Information RequestNumber: IRN00006.HCR, Subject:Iran: (1) Are there "liberated areas" outside government control in the Kurdish-populated areas of Iran? (2) What is the status of people living in these areas? Do they face difficulties with Iranian authorities, 13 July 1993.
  
• Iran: The Faili Kurds during the 1990s; the "green card", Response to Information RequestNumber: IRN00011.HCR, The Centre for Documentation, 12 November 1993.
  
• IRAQI Kurdistan, Fact Finding Mission on the Human Rights Situation, Federation Internationale Des Ligues Des Droits De L'Homme
  
• IRAN-KURDS: FOREIGN MEDIA ABSENCE MAJOR CAUSE OF VIOLATIONS, Senthil Ratnasabapathy, Inter Press Service, June 14, 1994
  
• IRANIAN KURD DISSIDENT SHOT DEAD IN TURKEY, Reuters, June 15, 1994 (NEXIS)
  
• Iranian Shelling of Kurds Intensifies Despite Official Visit, Agence France Presse July 18, 1993 71.
  Kurdish Rebel Radio Condemns 'Murder' of Baluchi Leaders, Voice of Iranian Kordestan [in Persian]. 28 March 1993(BBC Summary 1 Apr. 1993/NEXIS)
  Iran; Kurdish Radio Pledges Solidarity with 'Oppressed' Baluchi People, Voice of Iranian Kordestan [in Persian 24 March 1993 (BBC Summary 27 Mar. 1993/NEXIS)
  Iran Kurdish Leader Among 4 Killed in Berlin, The New York Times, September 19, 1992 (NEXIS)
  
• The Kurds, Macdowall, David, 1985.
  
• The Kurdish Challenge and Revolutionary Iran, Charlse MacDonald, Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 23, No. 1-2, 1989.
  
• Reflections on the Kurdish situation, FERRIS, Elizabeth, Ecumenical Refugee Network News No. 55 pp.11-12 March 1991.
  
• Kurdish refugees and the new world order, Paper presented to Middle East Studies Association 25 Nov. 1991, FRELICK, Bill, 17p 19911100, MASS EXODUS / KURDS / ASYLUM SEEKERS / PROTECTION / WELL-FOUNDED FEAR OF PERSECUTION / HUMAN RIGHTS / EMERGENCY RELIEF/IRAN / IRAQ / TURKEY.
  
• The Kurdish tragedy, CHALIAND, Gerard, 120p 19940704, Zed Press / UNRISD, KURDS / ETHNIC PERSECUTION/ TURKEY / IRAQ / IRAN / SYRIA.
  
• Iranian Shelling of Kurds Intensifies Despite Official Visit, Agence France Presse July 18, 1993 71.
  The Baluchis and Pathans, London: Minority Rights Group, July 1987
  

Decided Cases:

• UNITED KINGDOM: The appeal of Ahmad Ali Yavari against the Secretary of State for the Home Department (notified 9th Jan 1987), NEVE, D. L. ; CAINE, J. D. ; CHAPMAN, L. W., R. G., 5p. 19870109/ KURDS / STUDENTS / POLITICAL ACTIVITIES IN EXILE / ASYLUM SEEKERS / WELL-FOUNDED FEAR OF PERSECUTION / APPEALS / REFOULEMENT