Under Kurdish Rule
Subtitle: Abuses in PYD-run Enclaves of Syria
By: Fred Abrahams and Lama Fakih ; edited by Nadim Houry and Tom Porteous
Contributors: Fakih, Lama, author; Houry, Nadim, editor; Porteous, Tom, editor; Human Rights Watch (Organization)
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9781623131432
Subjects: Politics and government; Human rights; Detention of persons; Political prisoners; Civil rights; Civil War (Syria : 2011-) fast (OCoLC)fst01907471; Kurds; Prisoners; Legal status, laws; History
Other titles: Abuses in PYD-run Enclaves of Syria; Abuses in  Democratic Union Party-run Enclaves of Syria; Syria :
Description: "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.
Notes: "June 2014."

"This report was researched and 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"--p. 108.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Map of Syria; title: Summary; title: Recommendations. To the PYD-led Interim Transitional Administration; title: Methodology; title: I. Background. Kurds in Syria ; Kurds and the Syria conflict ; Declared autonomy of the mostly Kurdish regions ; Attacks on Kurdish areas ; Border closures and humanitarian access; title: II. Arbitrary arrests; title: III. Due process violations. Shifting laws; title: IV. Abuses in detention. Death of Hanan Hamdosh ; Death of Rashwan Atash; title: V. Prison conditions; title: VI. Unsolved disappearances and killings. Amir Hamid ; Ahmed Bonchaq ; Bahzed Dorsen ; Nidal, Ahmad and Amar Badro; title: VII. Children in security forces. YPG response and ongoing use of children ; Asayish response and ongoing use of children ; Legal standards; title: VIII. Amuda Protest, June 27-28, 2013. The aftermath : shootings, mass arrests, beatings ; The PYD's position; title: IX. Legal standards; title: Appendix I. Charter of the Social Contract; title: Appendix II. YPG rules of procedure; title: Appendix III. Asayish rules and regulations; title: Appendix IV. Communications between Human Rights Watch and Asayieh; title: Appendix V. Communication between Human Rights Watch and YPG.