Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish political prisoner Sakineh Parvaneh went on a one-day symbolic hunger strike today, marking the anniversary of the birth of Ali Mozaffari, a 17-year-old boy killed during the anti-government uprising of Women, Life, Freedom in Quchan, Razavi Khorasan Province. Mozaffari, a Kurdish civilian from Quchan, was shot by anti-riot forces during protests in the city on 22 September 2022. Despite his injuries, he was severely beaten...

Prisoner Ali Ashraf-Khani, who had been sentenced to death for "premeditated murder", was executed on 1 May in Dizel Abad Prison in Kermanshah, Kermanshah Province. Ashraf-Khani, a 45-year-old man from Sarpol-e Zahab, Kermanshah Province, was arrested in 2017 and sentenced to death under the Islamic law of qisas, or retribution-in-kind, which gives the victim’s family the right to retaliate.

Khosrow Besharat, a Kurdish prisoner of conscience on death row in Ghezel Hesar prison in Karaj, Alborz Province, who was transferred to solitary confinement for execution hours after the execution of his co-defendant Anvar Khezri on 1 May, is at imminent risk of execution. Besharat was one of seven Kurdish prisoners of conscience who had been sentenced to death in a joint case on charges...

Prisoner Faramarz Moradi was executed on 30 April for drug-related offences in Ardabil Central Prison in Ardabil Province. Moradi, a 31-year-old man from of the village of Harkian in Salmas, West Azerbaijan Province, was sentenced to death about four years ago on charges related to drugs. On 11 February, Nojoumi Moradi, the brother of Faramarz Moradi, was also executed on charges of "premeditated murder" in Orumiyeh...

Kurdish prisoner of conscience Anvar Khezri was executed this morning in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj, Alborz Province, after 14 years in prison, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Khezri was one of seven Kurdish prisoners of conscience who had been sentenced to death in a joint case on charges of "spreading corruption on earth" (efsad-e fel arz). Four of Khezri's co-defendants, Ghassem Abasteh,...