Kurdistan Human Rights Network

According to Iran Human Rights, a total of 481 people have been killed so far during the Mahsa (Jina) Amini protests across Iran, including in Iran’s Kurdish region. KHRN data of confirmed deaths of Kurdish people shows that 121 Kurds have been killed by Iranian security forces during the protests. KHRN has verified this information via multiple sources. At least two sources have confirmed the deaths…

Iranian forces shot dead 40-year-old Kurdish civilian Frashad Ibrahimi after they opened fire on his vehicle at a checkpoint around the village of Sarqala near the town of Kamyaran, on the Kamyaran-Kermanshah road, on 24 December.  His body was handed back to his family on 26 December following examination by a forensic doctor in Kermanshah, Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) was told.  A photo seen by…

Mahsa (Zhina) Amini died on 16 September after she was hospitalized following her arrest and torture by morality police in Tehran.  She passed away at the intensive care unit of Kasra Hospital in Tehran.  She was arrested on 13 September for having worn the hijab “inappropriately” and was beaten by the morality police on the way to a detention facility.  Her family members and civilians gathered outside the…

Turkish army shot and killed an Iranian Kurdish civilian identified as Asgar Darvishzadeh in the border areas of Khoy, Iran’s West Azerbaijan province, on 13 September. “Asgar Darvishzadeh, who was guiding a group of Afghan civilians who were going to Turkey, was shot and killed by snipers of the Turkish army near the village of Karkush [in Khoy] and on Iranian soil”, said a source…

Iranian police opened fire on a civilian vehicle near Khorramabad in Lorestan province, on 31 July, killing two children identified as Mehdi Rashedimanesh and Matin Rashedimanesh. The car belonging to a civilian named Rahman Rashedimanesh from the city of Marivan in the Kurdistan province was shot at for allegedly “carrying contraband goods”. A relative of the family spoke to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) and…

Iran’s anti-smuggling forces killed a young Kurdish man from Kamyaran, Kurdistan province, named Sina Zafari on 29 July. The anti-smuggling forces opened fıre on Zafari’s car on a road near Ahvaz, Khuzestan province, on the suspicion that he was carrying contraband goods. Zafari, 20, was hit by several bullets and was killed on the spot. In the past few years, dozens of Kurdish civilians have been shot…

A young Kurdish man arrested by Iranian police on “drug-related” charges in Tehran on 7 April, has lost his life suspiciously in a police detention centre. The family of the 25-year-old Milad Jafari, from Kermanshah in western Iran, claimed that their son had lost his life due to “torture”. “Milad Jafari was violently arrested by officers of the Criminal Investigation Department on 7 April, along with…

Iranian police have shot and killed two Yarsani Kurdish civilians near a village in Dalahu, in the western province of Kermanshah, on 14 March. The bodies of the two civilians named Sourat Sayyadi and Pourya Rezaei were taken to the department of forensic medicine in Sarpol-e-Zahab in Kermanshah province and have not been returned to their families yet. A source who spoke to the Kurdistan Human…

Iranian police shot and killed a young Kurdish man named Mohammad Ahmadi Matin in Kermanshah, in the west, on 28 January. “On Friday, 28 January, some police officers in Kermanshah’s Arya Shahr [neighbourhood] had an argument with Mohammad Ahmadi Matin while he was parking his car in Shohada Square in Kermanshah. Then, Matin and his mother, who was in the car, drove to their house…