Law enforcement forces in the village of Savan in Sardasht, West Azerbaijan Province, today opened fire on a private car, resulting in the death of Kurdish tradesman Kavan Amjadi-Nia. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that law enforcement forces stationed at a checkpoint in the village pursued and cornered Amjadi-Nia’s car, firing at it despite the absence of any foreign goods in the…
Read moreLaw enforcement forces in Kermanshah have tortured to death Payam Abdi, a 35-year-old Kurdish man recently arrested in the city, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. On 9 January, a police officer informed Abdi’s family of his death and asked them to retrieve his body from the military hospital in Kermanshah. When the family arrived, however, conflicting statements emerged, with law enforcement officials claiming…
Read moreKurdish tradesman Azad Sattar-Panah was fatally shot by border guards in the Hangeh-ye Zhal border area of Baneh, Kurdistan Province, on 7 November. The incident followed a verbal altercation between Sattar-Panah and border guards, which resulted in the guards opening fire. Border guards have also shot and wounded at least seven kolbars in the border areas of Nowsud, Kermanshah Province, and Baneh in recent days. The Kurdistan…
Read moreSirous Shokri Elyasi, a Kurdish civilian on military service, was shot dead on 24 July at the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) base in the village of Delazi in Salmas, West Azerbaijan province, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. While IRGC officials claimed that Shokri had committed suicide, the Department of Forensic Medicine confirmed that he was shot from a distance. Shokri’s family was…
Read moreIranian police shot dead Kurdish civilian Ali Nazari in the Jafarabad neighbourhood of Kermanshah, Kermanshah province, on 26 July. Nazari, 40, had previously been convicted and ordered to pay blood money for an assault charge. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that police officers chased him at the main intersection of Jafarabad neighbourhood at 20:00 local time on 26 July. The officers shot Nazari multiple…
Read moreThe Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) stationed in the border area of Bamo in the Ezgeleh district of Salas-e Babajani, Kermanshah province, western Iran, shot dead Qazi Mustafa, a 50-year-old resident of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, while he was extinguishing a fire in the border areas. A source that spoke to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) said: “On 11 July, a mountainous area…
Read moreThe detained Kurdish civilians Musa Esmaeili and Peyman Galvani have been tortured to death over the past two days in the Ministry of Intelligence detention centre in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan province, north-west Iran. Esmaeili, a 31-year-old father of two, was arrested by security forces on 7 May in the village of Pasveh in Piranshahr, West Azerbaijan province, and taken to the Ministry of Intelligence detention…
Read morePrison guards at the Greater Tehran Central Penitentiary killed prisoner Saman Darvishi under torture on 8 May, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. The 31-year-old prisoner, from Harsin in Kermanshah province, was arrested about a year ago for robbery. The prisoner was also beaten several times last year on the pretext that he had injured a law enforcement officer while in custody, KHRN has…
Read moreIranian police killed Hossein Maleki, a 27-year-old Kurdish civilian, on Baharan Boulevard in the city of Qods, Tehran province, on 8 April. “On Saturday, 8 April, the civilian got into a verbal argument with several police officers who questioned him on Baharan Boulevard in the city of Qods. After the verbal argument, one of the officers shot him from a distance of a few meters…
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