Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that security forces and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have put pressure on the families of the victims who lost their lives in the Ukrainian plane crash.  The Boeing 737-800 passenger plane flying to Kyiv crashed minutes after take-off from the Imam Khomeini International Airport in Tehran on January 8. All the…

Since yesterday, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) continue to be present at Azadi Square in Kermanshah and Sananda where protesters have gathered after the Ukrainian passenger jet was shot down by IRGC. Eyewitnesses in the Sanandaj and Kermanshah have told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that security equipped with water spray vehicles had been present at Azadi (Iqbal) Square in Sanandaj and Azadi…

Althought the Iranian security forces had urged the families of casualties of the November protests not to hold mourning ceremonies, Kurdish civilians held a mourning ceremony for Mina Sheikhi in the city of Saqqez and five other victims killed in the city of Marivan, local sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). “On 26 December, the family of Mina Sheikhi and a group of…

A Kurdish psychiatrist, therapist and translator Naser Hemati was released on bail on December 31. He was detained by security forces at his family’s home in Isfahan on Wednesday, December 25, and taken to a security detention centre in the city, local sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network. He was arrested following the release of his comments about the November …

The officers affiliated with the Intelligence Department of Marivan Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have raided the house of civil rights activist Aram Fathi family home, but they have not been able to arrest him since he was not home, an informed source told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). Aram Fathi visited the Intelligence Department of IRGC in Marivan after being informed…

Iranian security forces and riot police have been widely deployed to Saqqez, Bukan, Marivan, Sanandaj, Javanrood, Kermanshah, and Ilam on the 40th day of the nationwide killing of protesters on 16 November, a source told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN).   Some of these cities are only witnessing the special forces of the police. However, in cities such as Marivan, Kermanshah, and Javanrood, both the police…

The Iranian security forces arrested two cultural activists in Kermanshah, sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN).  Fouad Mozaffari, a poet, and Farzad Safareh, a writer, were detained on 18 December by security forces in their family homes. The reason for the arrest of these two Kurdish activists and the charges against them remain unclear who were also arrested earlier in September 2018 for organising a rally in…

Kurdish civil society and environmental activist Simko Maroufi from Bukan was sentenced to two years in prison on charges of “disturbing public order” by participating in a rally condemning the Turkish army’s attack on the Kurdish-led Democratic Autonomous Administration in the north and east of Syria, known as Rojava. The hearing of the charges against Simko Maroufi was held at Branch 4 of the Bukan…

Kurdish Journalist Homayoun Abbasi was arrested by security forces in Tehran on 17 December. Homayoun Abbasi, born in Islamabad in the west of Kermanshah province, is the editor of the cultural and political monthly Jilwan which has been published in both Kurdish and Persian languages in Tehran and the Kurdish regions of Iran for the past five years. Charges against Abbasi are yet to be…