Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Court in Orumiyeh (also known in Kurdish as Urmiye) sentenced Kurdish writer and student Ali Badrkhani to three years in prison on 29 March, local sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). He was first arrested two years ago at his sister’s home on Christmas Day on 25 December 2014, after which officers of the ministry of intelligence interrogated him and…

Religious extremists have continued to attack solo female artists in Kermanshah as the head of Qom Seminary Teachers Society (QSTS) has been demanding more restraints on “such unlawful acts” in a public letter to local governor.   Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) reported that on 29 January of this year at the conference of of Iran’s Architectural History, the Dayrak Khatoon’s music group performed a short piece of…

Iranian security forces arrested Kurdish civil and Kurdish women’s right Farzaneh Jalali on 23 February in Kermanshah (Also known in Kurdish as Kermashan) and transferred her to an unknown location. According to Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) sources, Jalali was contacted by the local notary office that asked her to go to their office, and the Iranian security forces arrested her when she arrived to that…

Branch 10 of Orumiyeh( Also known as Urmiye) Court of Appeal has sentenced a Kurdish civil rights activist to three years in prison on charges of “acting against national security” for contacts with foreign media and human rights organizations. Armed forces of the Intelligence Office of Boukan arrested Kurdish civil rights activist Ismael Sanyar 13 December 2015. He was accused of sending reports and news to…

Kurdish music band ‘Dayrak Khatoon’ has been banned from performing live at the ‘International Festival of Tribal Music’, which is held between 19 to 22 January in Kermanshah. The band was scheduled to perform on 21 January, but the Iranian authorities have simply banned it. on the pretext of the presence of women members in the band. The Kurdish group held a concert a few…

“In the past few days, the branch two of Orumiyeh (also known as Urmiye) Revolutionary Court headed by judge Ali Sheikhlou sentenced a Kurdish political prisoner to five years in prison,” a reliable source told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). “Afshin Asadzadeh, a Kurdish citizen from Orumiyeh, was arrested by the security forces at his home on 24 October 2016.He was detained at a…

A gathering of solidarity with Kurdish Kolber workers was cancelled in Mariwan because of the presence of huge Iranian police forces. A few days ago in Mariwan, a group of Kurdish activists planned to gather outside the residence of the governor of the city to protest against the never-ending killings of Kurdish Kolber workers by the security forces. But on the day of the planned protest…

Iranian security forces have carried out mass arrests of Kurdish citizens in the past few weeks in Boukan and Naghadeh(Naqadeh) areas, according to reliable local sources. A Kurdish student of physical education studies was arrested in Naghadeh city’s main street along with Shayan Haji Talkhabi said to be a make-up artist, on 29 October, according to a reliable source. The security forces immediately…

“The [Iranian] security forces arrested two Kurdish artists, Mehdi Tawakoli and Mohamad Abdi, in Sanandaj, on 11 October. We since no nothing on their fate and whereabouts,” a reliable source said in an interview with the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). The KRHN source said “Mehdi is a member of the Kurdish Youth Association of Cinema and Photography. Prior to his arrest he organised many…