Research Catalog

Title

Under Kurdish Rule : Abuses in PYD-run Enclaves of Syria / [Fred Abrahams and Lama Fakih ; edited by Nadim Houry and Tom Porteous].

Author

Abrahams, Fred

Publication

[New York] : Human Rights Watch, [2014]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Fakih, Lama
• Houry, Nadim
• Porteous, Tom
• Human Rights Watch (Organization), issuing body.

Description

i, 108 pages : color map; 27 cm

Summary

"The 108-page report documents arbitrary arrests of the PYD's political opponents, abuse in detention, and unsolved abductions and murders. It also documents the use of children in the PYD's police force and armed wing, the People's Protection Units (YPG)"--Publisher's description.

Alternative Title

• Abuses in PYD-run enclaves of Syria
• Abuses in Partiya Yekîtiya Demokrat-run enclaves of Syria
• Syria, under Kurdish rule

Subject

• 2000-2099
• Kurds > Syria > Politics and government > 21st century
• Human rights > Syria
• Civil rights > Syria
• Detention of persons > Syria
• Political prisoners > Syria
• Prisoners > Legal status, laws, etc. > Syria
• Civil rights
• Detention of persons
• Human rights
• Kurds > Politics and government
• Political prisoners
• Prisoners > Legal status, laws, etc
• Syria > History > Civil War, 2011-
• Syria

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• "June 2014"--Table of contents page.
• "This report was researched and written by Fred Abrahams, special advisor at Human Rights Watch, and Lama Fakih, Syria and Lebanon researcher at Human Rights Watch ... . The report was edited by Nadim Houry, deputy director in the Middle East and North Africa program and Tom Porteous, deputy program director"--Page 108.
• " ... documents arbitrary arrests of the PYD's political opponents, abuse in detention, and unsolved abductions and murders. It also documents the use of children in the PYD's police force and armed wing, the People's Protection Units (YPG)"--Publisher's website, as viewed July 8, 2014.
• PYD = Partiya Yekîtiya Demokrat [Democratic Union Party].

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available online via the World Wide Web.

Contents

Map of Syria -- Summary -- Recommendations -- Methodology -- I. Background -- II. Arbitrary arrests -- III. Due Process Violations -- IV. Abuses in Detention -- V. Prison Conditions -- VI. Unsolved Disappearances and Killings -- VII. Children in Security Forces -- VIII. Amuda Protest, June 27-28, 2013 -- IX. Legal Standards -- Appendix I. Charter of the Social Contract -- Appendix II. YPG rules of procedure -- Appendix III. Asayish rules and regulations -- Appendix IV. Communications between Human Rights Watch and Asayieh -- Appendix V. Communication between Human Rights Watch and YPG -- Acknowledgements.

ISBN

• 9781623131432
• 162313143X

LCCN

2015302589

OCLC

• ocn883891010
• 883891010
• SCSB-14375140

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library