HRW: Syria is hostile to any Kurdish political or cultural expression

Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Thursday that Syrian authorities should end their “unlawful and unjustified” practices of attacking Kurdish gatherings and detaining Kurdish activists . “At a time when other countries in the region, from Iraq to Turkey, are improving the treatment of their Kurdish minority, Syria remains resistant to change,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, HRW’s Middle East director and added: “In fact, Syria has been especially hostile to any Kurdish political or cultural expression.”