Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Mohammad Khezrnezhad, a Kurdish Sunni cleric and political prisoner detained during the anti-government Women, Life, Freedom protests in Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province, has been moved from Orumiyeh Central Prison to Sanandaj Central Prison. Khezrnezhad, who had requested the transfer to be closer to his family in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, informed his relatives of the move in a brief phone call on 3 October. In September, Khezrnezhad...

Kurdish tradesman Yousef Dashti was killed on 3 October after anti-smuggling police officers opened fire on his vehicle during a pursuit on the road between Bukan and Mahabad in West Azerbaijan Province. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the police, suspecting that Dashti, 38, was carrying contraband, fired dozens of shots at the car and hit him with a bullet, causing the...

Taregh Nazari, a kolbar from Salas-e Babajani in Kermanshah Province, was killed by direct fire from Iranian border guards on the evening of 2 October in the border areas of Nowsud, Kermanshah Province, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. The 39-year-old father of three was shot without warning and at close range while working as a kolbar. The incident took place when Iranian border...

Iranian authorities have executed Fazlollah Pour-Nasiri, a prisoner from Kuhdasht, Lorestan Province, who had been sentenced to death on drug-related charges, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Pour-Nasiri, who was arrested about three and a half years ago, was transferred to solitary confinement in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj, Alborz Province, on 30 September and executed this morning. Another prisoner, Hamzeh Shahbazi, was also...

Kurdish political prisoner Hamid Hosseinnezhad Heidaranlou has been sentenced to death after being tortured into confessing to involvement in clashes between the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and Iranian border guards. Hosseinnejad Heidaranlou, 39, from the village of Segrik in Chaldoran, West Azerbaijan Province, was sentenced to death in mid-July by Branch One of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province, on charges of...