UK Based Kurdish Activists Are Getting Abused

Diyar Harki

Some British-based Kurdish activists despite operating from the comfort and legality of a democratic country are quietly normalizing the same oppressive tactics they once loudly condemned in the KDP and PUK regimes. Beneath their slogans of justice and human rights, certain individuals exploit their organizational influence to humiliate and coerce fellow campaigners simply for holding differing political or strategic views. This hypocrisy reveals itself most brutally when a young, principled activist is targeted, pressured into silence, and ultimately forced to withdraw from public engagement altogether. That is not activism; it is psychological subjugation.

Let’s be clear: when someone is made to regret their speech or political involvement not by persuasion, but through emotional manipulation, peer pressure, and the threat of social or professional exile that is a violation of human dignity. It may not be as visible as the Kurdish political parties’ brutal crackdowns, but it is cut from the same cloth. And when activists in Britain adopt these toxic behaviours, they don’t just silence one voice they betray the very values they claim to defend.