Families of Iranian Kurdish asylum seekers, who were deported to Syria by Turkey, gathered in front of the Turkish embassy in Tehran for the second day in a row on 15 December, demanding the release of their family members. The Turkish police had detained Kurdish asylum seekers Damavand Pakseresht, Mobin Valadbeigi, Afshar Rostami, Bahman Shadravan, Massoud Heidari, Saeed Ahmadi, Fardin Darvishpour, Hedayat Rokhzadi and Samran…
Read moreA Kurdish refugee named Bakhtiyar Musazadeh has lost his life due to illness on 22 November after arriving in Germany. Reportedly, the young man fell ill while passing through Belarus in the cold weather. The 25-year-old asylum seeker’s family, who come from Salas-e Babajani in Kermanshah province, western Iran, had settled in the Al-Tash camp in Ramadi, central Iraq, in 1979. In 2005, after the fall of…
Read moreKurdish refugee Anwar Nillufary is on his third hunger strike since 2017 in front of the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in Athens, Greece, demanding his resettlement in another country. Nillufary had gone on hunger strike on two occasions in 2017 and 2020. The first one lasted 64 days while the other was 73-day-long. On 14 September 2021, the Kurdish refugee went on his third strike. His…
Read moreSwedish authorities have refused to grant asylum to an Iraqi Kurdish political activist, Hana Nasour, ordering the police on 8 October to deport her to Iraq. Hana Nasour, who grew up and was an activist in Iran, fears that the Iranian intelligence ministry would “pose a threat on her life” in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, she told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). “Security forces…
Read moreTurkish police has detained nine Iranian Kurdish asylum seekers and 57 others from the Kurdistan Region of Iraq near Istanbul on 21 August. On 24 August, authorities have deported these civilians to Syria’s north-western Azaz, raising concerns about their fate. The nine asylum seekers officially entered Turkey from Iran in the past few months and were trying to reach Europe by boat. Reportedly, the names of these…
Read moreKurdish woman asylum-seeker Monireh Heydari and some other asylum seekers have drowned after a boat carrying them turned over in the Mediterranean Sea near the Crete Island in Greece. The boat carrying mainly civilians from the Kurdistan Region of Iraq sank on 22 July. Although most of the people on the boat were rescued, four days after the incident, there is still no news on…
Read moreA group of unknown offenders have killed an Iranian Kurdish political activist Behrouz (Rebin) Rahimi, in Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan Region of Iraq, on 14 July. A CCTV footage published from the moment of the incident shows that a group of people followed Rahimi by a BMW car with tinted glass and no license plate and shot him with pistol-type guns equipped with silencers. The activist’s wife, Zoleykha…
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