Ronahî: The Heseke Tugay fighter Sîpan, whose identity name is Samî Şêxmûs Hiso, was abducted yesterday by an armed group and taken towards the village of Edlana in Serêkaniyê.

Ronahî: There he lost his life. From the moment the news spread, protests began in the towns and cities of Heseke province.

Kamîran: So this is not something happening out of sight; people have been in the streets since that day.

Ronahî: In Qamişlo thousands marched from Sonî roundabout to Şehîdan roundabout and stopped there. The main slogans condemned the crime and called for those responsible to be held to account.

Ronahî: The governor of Heseke, Nûredîn Ehmed, expressed condolences to the family on platform X and said he had ordered the security and judicial authorities to track the perpetrators and bring them to justice.

Kamîran: That is the official account. But what are the political sides saying?

Ronahî: The Democratic Council of Syria issued a written statement calling for a serious and transparent investigation, and according to the council the crime specifically targets the Kurdish people. The Zerkan city council also read a statement in both Kurdish and Arabic making the same demand for an investigation.

Ronahî: The deputy defence minister of the Autonomous Region of the East, Sîpan Hemo, also known as Semîr Oso, expressed condolences and said the relevant authorities had begun following the participants in the incident.

Kamîran: What has not yet been announced must also be said: which armed group is responsible, and what the outcome of this investigation is — there is no answer to these questions in the information we have.

Kamîran: Yesterday we spoke about the objections to the education decision, and today that file remains open.

Ronahî: The decision of the transitional government’s Ministry of Education and Teaching grants only three lessons a week for the Kurdish language. In many areas sit-ins and marches have been held; the protesters’ demand is that Kurdish be recognised constitutionally as a fundamental language.

Ronahî: In the city of Girkê Legê students and families gathered in front of the Education Directorate. The statement was read by student Hêlîn Umer and it called for mother-tongue education.

Kamîran: So the dispute is not about the existence of the lessons but about their status.

Ronahî: Exactly. The protesters say that a few limited hours do not meet their rights, and their argument rests on UNESCO’s principles of education, which state that everyone should be able to study at school in their mother tongue.

Ronahî: The deputy co-chair of the DEM Party, Tayîp Temel, announced that the party delegation will meet Abdullah Ocalan on Monday on the island of Îmralı.

Kamîran: Who is in that delegation?

Ronahî: MP Pervîn Buldan, Mîthat Sancar and lawyer Faîk Ozgur Erol. The last meeting took place on the second of August.

Kamîran: So more than a month has passed in between. The content of the meeting has not yet been disclosed.

Ronahî: The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that the Israeli army today shelled the agricultural areas around Beyt El Cin, west of the Damascus countryside, twice with howitzers.

Ronahî: A few hours earlier the Bat El Werd hill in the same area had been shelled, and late in the evening the villages of Meriyê in Deraa. So far no information on human casualties has been given.

Kamîran: Three shellings within a few hours in the same region — this is not a one-off incident. And we only have the observatory’s account in our hands.

Ronahî: True; no official information from the Israeli side has been released about these shellings.

Ronahî: According to leadership team member Mustafa Abdî, so far one thousand and ninety-nine displaced families from Serêkaniyê have returned to their homes, and nearly forty-five villages have received their residents back.

Kamîran: Those are the villages that have been cleared, as you say.

Ronahî: Yes, villages cleared of the remnants of war; in some areas the work is still continuing. Abdî says they can organise two or three convoys a week.

Ronahî: But those returning face destroyed houses, a lack of basic services and closed main roads; some assistance is being offered to the families.

Ronahî: In Tehran, Baha’i citizen Seba Sefîdî was arrested yesterday in front of her house, and a prison sentence of three years and five months has been imposed on her.

Ronahî: She was first taken to the Cenatabad prosecutor’s office and then transferred to Qerçax Prison in Varamîn. This information comes from the Human Rights Activists News Agency.

Kamîran: The reason for the sentence has not been stated in these reports.

Ronahî: No, it has not been stated. This is also part of the series of pressures on women that the same observatory continues to record.