Parsa Ghobadi, a young protester who was shot in both eyes during the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising in Kermanshah, Kermanshah Province, on 21 November 2022, was arrested by security forces in the city on 4 September. The current whereabouts and fate of the young man from Kamyaran, Kurdistan Province, remain unknown. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that security agents arrested Ghobadi without a…
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Hamed Farajpour, a 38-year-old kolbar from Saqqez, Kurdistan Province, passed away today after being shot by Iranian border guards yesterday in the Hangeh-ye Zhal border area of Baneh, Kurdistan Province. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Farajpour was injured after border guards opened fire on a group of kolbars without prior warning. Despite being transferred to Salahuddin Ayubi Hospital in Baneh for urgent…
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Kurdish journalist Nazila Maroofian has revealed in a phone call from Tehran’s Evin prison that she was sexually assaulted and physically beaten by security forces during her latest arrest, the fourth since last year’s anti-government protests. Maroofian, who was arrested on 30 August during a violent raid by security forces on her home in Tehran, said in an audio recording of a phone call that…
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Kurdish political prisoner Keyvan Rashozadeh was transferred to solitary confinement in Orumiyeh Central Prison in West Azerbaijan Province yesterday for protesting against the conditions in the political prisoners’ ward. Rashozadeh went on hunger strike the same day in response to his placement in solitary confinement. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that during a visit by prison officials on 5 September, a group of…
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Branch One of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Mahabad, West Azerbaijan Province, has sentenced Kurdish civil rights activist Taha Rasoulian to a total of seven years and three months in prison. According to the verdict, Rasoulian was sentenced to three years in prison on charges of “acting against national security” through his “affiliation” with one of the Kurdish opposition parties, three years and seven months…
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The Ministry of Intelligence in Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province, summoned and arrested Ahmad Hassanzadeh and Solmaz Hassanzadeh, the father and sister of Mohammad Hassanzadeh, one of the victims of last year’s anti-government protests. The arrests come as part of the increased pressure by security and judicial authorities on the families of the protest victims. The father and daughter were summoned by telephone yesterday and then taken…
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Dr. Behrouz Chamanara, a member of the faculty of the Department of Kurdish Language and Literature at Kurdistan University in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, has raised objections to the rejection of his qualifications by the Ministry of Intelligence for continuing as a faculty member. In a letter to the university’s president, Chamanara voiced his objections to his employment status and the lack of an official employment…
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Iranian security forces today arrested Jina Mahsa Amini’s uncle Safa Aeli in Saqqez, Kurdistan Province and took him to an undisclosed location, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Aeli was arrested without a court warrant at 13:00 local time as he was returning home when security forces raided his house. During the search, the forces confiscated some of his personal belongings and identification documents…
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Detained Kurdish civilians Vahid Chavaran, Mohammad Hossein Haaseli, and Nasser Rezaei sewed their lips together in the pre-trial detention centre of Ilam Prison, one day after starting a hunger strike. The Kurdish civilians, along with Bakhtiar Mohammadzadeh, a detained civilian from Darreh Shahr in Ilam Province, began their hunger strike on 3 September in protest at their continued detention. Today, in response to the authorities’ neglect…
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The Kurdistan Human Rights Network’s (KHRN) recent investigations have revealed numerous cases of human rights violations against Kurdish civilians and activists from Iran in August 2023.
Our Documentation and Statistics Centre has compiled a comprehensive report on the various violations perpetrated against these individuals, which we present in this monthly report.
The Kurdistan Human Rights Network’s (KHRN) recent investigations have revealed numerous cases of human rights violations against Kurdish civilians and activists from Iran in August 2023.
Our Documentation and Statistics Centre has compiled a comprehensive report on the various violations perpetrated against these individuals, which we present in this monthly report.
Executions
According to these findings, Iran executed at least 13 prisoners over the past month in Sanandaj, Saqqez, Khorramabad, Karaj, Hamadan, and Dezful.
While three prisoners were executed on charges of “premeditated murder”, 10 were executed for drug-related offences.
These are the executions of which the KHRN has been informed by its sources. However, the number of those executed is likely to be higher.
Kolbars and tradesmen
In August, at least four kolbars were killed and 16 were injured in the country’s western border areas.
Of these, 18 were shot by Iranian border guards and one was killed after he was hit by a military vehicle of the border forces.
In addition, one kolbar was injured after being shot by Iraqi border forces in the Choman border of Baneh on 7 August.
Killings of civilians
On 17 August, a Kurdish soldier from Maku, West Azerbaijan Province, was shot dead at a military base in Qasr-e Shirin, Kermanshah Province.
Work accidents
Over the past month, at least six workers lost their lives in work accidents in Qasr-e Shirin, Tabriz, Saqqez, Maku, Javanrud and Ilam.
Detentions and arrests
Throughout August, Iranian forces arrested at least 60 civilians, including activists, journalists, Kurdish Sunni clerics and two children.
Two of these civilians were detained to serve prison sentences in Ilam and Naqadeh.
Prison sentences
Over the past month, Iranian courts sentenced at least 10 people to prison terms ranging from six months to a total of 16 and a half years.
Half of these sentences were handed down by Branch 101 of the Criminal Court of Mahabad, West Azerbaijan Province.