Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Six Kurdish civilians from the village of Pasveh in Piranshahr, West Azerbaijan Province, were imprisoned on 24 April for their involvement in the anti-government uprising of Women, Life, Freedom in 2022. The individuals, identified as Ehsan Golabi, Aram Khaledi-Nasab, Alireza Mohammadi Arshad, Esmaeil Tajalla, Hiwa Mahmoudi, and Mohammad Ebrahimi, were initially arrested on 27 September 2022, and detained at the Ministry of Intelligence detention facility...

Farzad Khademi, a prisoner convicted of "premeditated murder", was executed today in Saqqez Prison, in Kurdistan Province. He was transferred to solitary confinement on 23 April in preparation for his execution. Khademi, from of Saqqez, was arrested in July 2020 and sentenced to death under the Islamic law of qisas, or retribution-in-kind, which gives the victim’s family the right to retaliate.

Matin Hassani, a 23-year-old Kurdish civilian who was injured in the eye during anti-government protests in Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province, in November 2019, has been called to appear before the Branch One of the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor's Office in the city on charges of "propaganda against the state". The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Hassani received the summons on 18 April...

Kurdish political prisoner Keyvan Rashozadeh continues to be denied medical treatment for injuries sustained as a result of torture by prison authorities, as he enters the seventh day of his hunger strike in solitary confinement at Orumiyeh Central Prison. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that despite his injuries, Rashozadeh has been denied access to medical services on the orders of Peyman Khanzadeh,...

Kurdish political prisoner Abdolaziz Gol-Mohammadi attempted suicide in Orumiyeh Central Prison today in protest at the authorities' refusal to grant him temporary leave, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Gol-Mohammadi's suicide attempt is the second incident of self-harm by Kurdish political prisoners in Orumiyeh Central Prison, underlining the pressure and deprivation of legal rights faced by inmates. In similar circumstances, on 26 February, Shahin...