Extrajudicial Killings Archives - KHRN

September 21, 2026

Ministry of Intelligence forces shoot dead Kurdish man near Piranshahr

Ministry of Intelligence forces shot dead Ali Osloub, a 35-year-old Kurdish man, as he rode a motorcycle near the village of Jaldian in Piranshahr, West Azerbaijan Province, on 17 September. The

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August 22, 2026

Two Kurdish Citizens Killed by Iranian Police Forces in Kermanshah

Two Kermanshah residents, Pouya Naderi—a former Kurdish Yarsani political prisoner—and Mohammad Reza Mohammadi, were shot and killed by Iranian police forces on Thursday, August 20, in separate

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August 21, 2026

Iran border guards kill Kurdish tradesman in Sardasht

Iranian border guards have shot dead Kurdish tradesman Yousef Mamehpour in the border areas of Sardasht, West Azerbaijan Province. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that in the

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August 3, 2026

IRGC forces kill Kurdish man, withhold body from family

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) forces have shot dead Seyyed Ahmad Esmaeili, a Kurdish man from Mahabad, West Azerbaijan Province, and refused to hand over his body to his family. The

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July 29, 2026

Exhumations reveal identities of two killed in Kermanshah protests

More than six months after Soroush Karami, an 18-year-old from Kermanshah, disappeared during the December 2025–January 2026 protests in the city, it has emerged that security forces shot him dead

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July 28, 2026

Ministry of Intelligence forces kill three members of Kurdish family

Ministry of Intelligence forces have shot dead three members of a Kurdish family from Sanandaj on the Baneh–Marivan road in Kurdistan Province. Mehdi Tavakkoli, director of the Kurdistan

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July 24, 2026

Iran border guards kill two Kurdish men in Khoy, Paveh

Rasoul Ghalandari, a 21-year-old father of two from the village of Balajuk in Khoy, West Azerbaijan Province, and Soheyl Ferdowsi, a 20-year-old kolbar from the village of Dezavar in Paveh,

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July 22, 2026

Komala peshmerga dies from wounds sustained in IRGC strike

Aboubakr Houshangi, a peshmerga of the Komala Party of Iranian Kurdistan, has died from wounds sustained in an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) missile strike on the party’s headquarters in

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July 13, 2026

Citizen from Kurdistan Region Killed by IRGC

A 27-year-old citizen from the Kurdistan Region, Rebaz Soleyman Saleh, was killed after being targeted by gunfire from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The Kurdistan Human Rights

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