Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Prisoners Hadi Rostami, Reza Ramazani and Salah Karimi have gone on hunger strike to protest their transfer to solitary confinement cells in Orumiyeh Central Prison. The prisoners, from Ilam in Ilam Province and Bukan in West Azerbaijan Province, have also been denied contact with their families, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Rostami, who faces a sentence of amputation, was placed in solitary confinement...

Hossein Kamalian, a 37-year-old kolbar, was killed and Fardin Ghalash seriously injured after being shot by Iranian border guards in the border areas of Piranshahr, West Azerbaijan Province, on 7 October. Kamalian, from Piranshahr, died after border guards opened fire at close range and without warning on a group of kolbars in the mountainous area of Delavan, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned.  The...

Amirhossein Haghjouyan, the cousin of the executed Kurdish Yarsan civilian Reza Rasaei, was released on bail from Kermanshah Central Prison on 5 October after spending 12 days in detention. Haghjouyan, who faces charges of “insulting religious sanctities”, was arrested by the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Sahneh, Kermanshah Province, on 23 September.  The civilian was transferred from an IRGC intelligence detention...

Kamran Ghassemi and Keyvan Rashozadeh, two political prisoners from Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province, were conditionally released on 5 October after serving five years in Orumiyeh Central Prison, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned.  Ghassemi had been on hunger strike since 25 September in protest at the authorities' refusal to grant him conditional release. Both men were released on 5 October, but Ghassemi, who had...

The second court session of Verisheh Moradi, a member of the East Kurdistan Free Women Society (KJAR), took place on 5 October in Branch 15 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Tehran, despite her legal team's limited access to her case. Moradi faces charges of "armed insurrection" (baghi) through her alleged membership of the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK). The session, presided over by Judge Abolghassem...