Kurdistan Human Rights Network

The Iranian security forces arrested a Kurdish student and his father who were said tortured at the Inelegance Ministry’s jails in Orumiyeh for over ten days before being sent to the city’s central prison. A reliable local source told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that “the Intelligence [Ministry] officers of Orumiyeh dressed in civilian clothes chased the care of Farhad Peiqami, a Kurdish architecture…

“Five citizens from the Kurdish town of Shno (also known in Farsi as Oshnavieh ) were transferred from Orumiyeh Intelligence Agency detention centre to Orumiyeh Central Prison,” a reliable source told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) “Mohamad Royan, Vali Sharifi, Reza Ezat Taj, Faroq Shafahi and Saber Rasoulpour were arrested on 3 April 2016 in Shno by Iranian security forces and they were brought…

Iranian security forces have continued mass arrest of Kurdish rights activists after Newroz New Year was celebrated in its Kurdish form in the Sanandaj area on 19 March and onwards, a source from the area told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). “Iranian security forces have continued mass arrest of Kurdish activists in the Sanandaj area following Kurdish Newroz New Year celebration on 19 March in…

The Iranian authorities have extended detention of several Kurdish activists, five of whom come from the Saqez area, another from Kamyaran and the other activist is a renowned former political prisoner from Orumiyeh prison. The detained activists are being held at security detention centres run by the Iranian Intelligence Ministry and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the cities of Sanandaj and Oroumiyeh….

Iran’s Tehran Court of Appeal has reduced the six years jail sentence for Kurdish filmmaker Keywan (Keyvan) Karimi to only one-year in prison and 223 lashes on charges of “propaganda against the system”, a reliable source told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). His lawyer has been informed on 20 February 2016 that the Branch 54 of the Tehran Court of Appeal had reduced the sentence…

A renowned Iranian Kurdish political activist living in Stockholm Ghafour Mohammadi has been severely wounded in an assassination attempt on his life on the outskirts of the Swedish capital, Stockholm, on 13 February. A family relative of Mohammadi told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that the assassination attempt took place after Mohammadi and other Kurdish activists had held a protest to condemn recent Turkish army’s…

The Iranian authorities have released several local Kurdish political and civil activists who had been arrested on 4 February during a solidarity rally held to condemn Turkish army killing of brethren Kurds. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) sources said that the detainees had been released following a protest held outside the Tee Shalom detention centre. “The number of the arrested is still unclear, but it has…

The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Court of Orumiyeh has sentenced Kurdish political prisoner Youssef Kakemami to five more years in prions after he tried to communicate with international human rights organizations, a Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) source said. “Kakemami was verbally told of the verdict by Iranian officials of the Orumiyeh Central Prison on 18 January and he was not shown a copy of the…

A representative of the Prosecutor General of Tehran visited Rajaee Shahr prison in Karaj on 20 January to investigate the case of Syrian Kurdish political prisoner Ramazan Ahmad, who had complained about the extreme physical abuse that he had received at the hands of prison officers at the prison, after which he spent six days in coma, a reliable source told Kurdistan Human Rights…