Dublin South West TD, Seán Crowe, has said that the number of homeless children is at an all-time high, with numbers steadily increasing every month since the Government came into office. The Sinn Féin TD was commenting after the release of the Department of Housing’s March homelessness figures showed yet another rise in individual, family, […]
Sinn Féin’s Foreign Affairs spokesperson, Seán Crowe, has commended the UN Human Rights Office for today releasing a hard hitting report into the serious human rights and international law violations by the Turkish security forces, in the majority Kurdish south-east of the country. Over half a million people have been displaced, 100,000 have dismissed from […]
Sinn Féin’s Foreign Affairs spokesperson, Seán Crowe TD, has challenged the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Charlie Flanagan, to urgently raise the case if HDP MP, Faysal Sariyildiz, who has had his passport revoked by the Turkish Government Speaking in the Dáil, Deputy Seán Crowe TD said: “Last week I was due to meet with the […]
Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Seán Crowe TD, yesterday met with a Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) activist to discuss the political repression the party is facing in Turkey, as well as the Turkish Government’s severe violations of international and human rights law. Crowe had planned to meet with a HDP MP but he is […]
Sinn Féin’s Foreign Affairs spokesperson, Seán Crowe TD, has called for the immediate release of 11 Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) MPs, and the two Co-Chairs of the party, who were arrested by Turkish security forces last night. Deputy Crowe said: “Yesterday, at a meeting of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Irish Parliament, I discussed the […]
Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Seán Crowe TD, has strongly criticised the Turkish Government after 60 party executives from the opposition People’s Democratic Party (HDP) and its sister party, the Democratic Regions Party (DBP), were arrested on 11 October. Deputy Crowe said: “The arrest of 60 party executives of the leftist and pro-Kurdish HDP […]
Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Seán Crowe TD, has backed calls for a family member, lawyer, or political delegation, to be granted immediate access to visit Abdullah Öcalan in prison. Öcalan, a leading Kurdish activist, has been imprisoned on Imrali Island in Turkey since 1999. Held in isolation and solitary confinement, he was one […]
Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Seán Crowe TD, has expressed concern at the Turkish Government’s escalating crackdown on news and media organisations in recent weeks. He said that democrats and those who believe in the concept of a free and independent media need to speak out at what is happening in Turkey. Deputy Crowe said: […]
Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Seán Crowe TD, has expressed his shock and alarm at the Bahraini Government’s decision to strip the country’s leading Shia cleric of his citizenship. Deputy Crowe said: “The oppressive, undemocratic, and sectarian regime in Bahrain has continually crushed democratic protests and jailed human rights defenders since mass and popular […]
Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Seán Crowe TD, has raised the continued attacks and assassinations of civil society and community activists in Colombia, with the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Charlie Flanagan, and the recent assassination attempt of opposition leader Imelda Daza. Deputy Crowe said: “Prior to my questioning in the Dáil, I personally wrote […]
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