Kurdistan Human Rights Network

In June Sirwan Nezhawi, a 29 year old Kurdish political prisoner from Sardasht, called KHRN from Tabriz prison and gave the latest updates on his situation. He was executed by the Iranian authorities

Kurdish political prisoner Behrouz Alkhani has been executed with five other prisoners in OrBehrouzumiyeh prison, a source based at the same prison confirmed. According to the source, Alkhani was

Kurdish film director Kaywan Karimi has been sentenced to six years behind bars and 223 lashes by the branch 28 of Islamic Revolutionary Court in Tehran on 10 October, an human rights activist based

Iranian intelligence agency officials summoned Kurdish student political prisoner Omid Dabakhchi Mukri in Mahabad prison on 17 October and told him that he was sentenced to four in prison by the

It is the second anniversary of the execution of Kurdish political prisoners Reza Ismaili Mamadi and Habibullah Golparipour. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has obtained detailed information

Sherko Moarefi, a native of the Kurdish border town of Baneh, was 33 at the time of his arrest by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps in a village near his hometown in October 2008. He was tried

Kurdish political prisoner Soleyman Sohrabi was transferred to a court in Mahabad after serving a six months of his jail sentence and the second term of his sentence, which consisted of 70 lashes,

Iranian authorities have been silent on the fate of Kurdish journalist and long-time editor of the bilingual weekly magazine “Neda-e-Jamehe” Farhad Jahanbegi. Kermanshah security forces arrested

In the past four weeks the Iranian police have killed at least six Kolbers and tradesmen accused of “smuggling”. Kolbers ( cross-border courier workers ) is the Kurdish name used to describe