by 20minutos.es/ via Kaos EnLaRed Translation by thefreeonline.

His Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu called the detained students “LGBT perverts

The President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on Monday called on the youth of his country to reject homosexuality, while a controversy rages over the arrest of four students accused of insulting Islam with LGBT symbols at Bogazici University in Istanbul.

“Our youth is not an LGBT youth,” Erdogan exclaimed during a virtual meeting with the youth branch of his party, the Islamist Justice and Development (AKP), which has ruled Turkey since 2002.

“You are a youth with computers and keyboards, you are not LGBT. You are not a youth that spreads the plague; on the contrary, you are a youth that lifts up broken or fallen hearts; I trust you ”, added the president.

“LGBT perverts”

Erdogan’s comments lead to a controversy unleashed last week, when police detained five students at Bogaziçi University in Istanbul, accusing them of insulting Islam for having placed an image of the Caaba on the ground during an art exhibition in the gardens of the institution.

The controversial work showed the sacred complex of Mecca, with an image of a popular being from Anatolian mythology, half woman and half serpent, in the place of the Kaaba, and adding a rainbow flag in one corner.

Turkish President Erdogan says there is ‘no such thing as LGBT’

Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu announced the arrests on Saturday, branding the students as “LGBT perverts,” and on the same day, two were admitted to pre-trial detention on charges of “hate speech,” while two others are under arrest. domiciliary, reports the newspaper Diken.

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by Pilar Álvarez English version by Melissa Kitson at elpais.com

The proposals from left-wing Unidas Podemos (United We Can) have been met with criticism from some women’s groups and have sparked tensions with their partner in the coalition government, the ‘Socialist’ Party PSOE

Spain’s Equality Ministry has prepared a draft bill that would allow transgender people to officially change their gender with the Spanish authorities and on their ID document, known in Spain as the DNI, without a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria.

Equality Minister Irene Montero,Juan Carlos Hidalgo / EFE LGBTQ+ Rights

Under the planned legislation, titled the “law for real and effective equality for trans people,” an individual aged 16 or over would be able to change their name and gender in the civil registry with a sworn statement – no medical check would be required. Sixteen is also the minimum age from which a person can make decisions about hormone treatments.

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‘The Hamsa Division are paid mercenaries of the Turkish State’s illegal occupation , ethnic cleansing and Turkification of the Syrian canton of Afrin and parts of Northern Syria, ordered by president Erdogan’.

by SyriansTruth&Justice stj-sy.org/en/Human Rights Journalism 1200 views Download as PDF also available in: Arabic

A special report reveals further details about women held in a prison of the Syrian opposition more than a year ago; one of whom gave birth inside

Introduction

On 28 May 2020, eight women at least with a newborn were found held in a military headquarters of the Hamza/Hamzat Division affiliated to the National Army, operating under the Turkish-backed Syrian Coalition of the opposition. It was by chance when outraged people stormed the headquarters, which is based in Afrin, responding to an attack carried out by the Hamza Division on a shop in the city, which resulted in the killing and the injury of at least five people.

The found detained women, were handed over to the Military Police of the National Army, to be brought before the court, as supposed. But, the Military Police, however, returned them to the Hamza Division, which removed them to an unknown place.

(translators note: ‘National Army’ refers to the notorious SNA jihadist mercenaries)

Image 1- a screenshot from the abovementioned video shows the women detainees who were found held in a headquarters of the Hamza Division in the city of Afrin on 28 May 2020.

STJ has followed up on the issue with an aim to identify the detained women, meeting more than ten military commanders and security officials in the National Army, the Hamza Division and the Military Police. However, most of those met refrained from providing any information in compliance with orders from Turkey to not to disclose any detail about the detained women and their fate.

Nevertheless, three of the sources confirmed that the women are being tried by the military court, while another said that they were removed to Turkey; there is no factual evidence to support any of the allegations.

Actually, the women’s fate is still unknown at the date of this report; early July 2020. It is worth mentioning that two sources from the Military Police,[1] confirmed to STJ that the Hamza Division re-took the women only two days after they were found and that it was most likely that they were transferred to a prison in Turkey.

Knowing that armed groups of the National Army had earlier transferred Syrian prisoners to Turkey, committing gross violation in accordance with Article 147 of Geneva Convention IV.[2]

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Arcadi Oliveres: Yes, (Capitalism should be destroyed) it has to be done and it is urgent because it is a perverse system that kills lives...

..Yes, utopias must be pursued.

by Sílvia Marimon at .ara.cat .. shared with thanks .. translation thefreeonline Monday.February 8, 2021 llegiu el missatge en català a continuació

Arcadi Oliveras portrayed at home. foto..CRISTINA CALDERER

On Thursday last week Arcadi was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer with not much time left and, since then, people keep coming to his house. Gone are the nights in the hospital, where he could not receive visits.

Sant Cugat
Arcadi Oliveres (Barcelona, ​​1945) is spending his last days in the summer house that his grandfather built in Sant Cugat, Barcelona, where he has lived for fifteen years.

When we sit down to talk he shows us the drawings of two of his grandchildren. One has drawn the house and the other his grandfather about to speak in public.

Over the years, Oliveres has given thousands of talks on democracy, refugees, capitalism, a culture of peace, climate change, disarmament, responsible consumption …

“These days are happy days, I feel very loved,” he says. He is always surrounded by his wife, Janine.

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Chile. A police station, municipality building, and other government buildings were set on fire by militants in response to the police murder of street juggler Francisco Martínez in Panguipulli on February 5. Originally published by Abolition Media Worldwide. The buildings of the Correos de Chile (Post Office), the Local Police Court, the Civil Registry and…

Government Buildings Set on Fire After Police Murder of Street Performer in Panguipulli, Chile — Enough 14 –

Defenders from Haudenosaunee Six Nations occupied a disputed tract of land in Caledonia, an hour south of Toronto. The dispute about a proposed real estate development escalated to a standoff between the government and the Six Nations Land Defenders. The Ontario Provincial Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at the Land Defenders.

Haudenosaunees people, however, say they need the land for their own growing population. They have renamed the tract “1492 Land Back Lane.” They say the band council does not represent them. The land is part of an ongoing dispute, which is complex and builds on 500 years of colonization.

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Day 200: #1492LandBackLane Update

Report from #1492LandBackLane land reclamation published to Montreal Counter-Info.

When Haudenosaunee Land Defenders are required to defy injunctions to protect our territories, we are arrested, charged, threatened and incarcerated.

It is a crime to fight for our lands, but we are still fighting. Land defense criminalization is meant to divide families, nations, and allies, in order to scare us into submission.

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