Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish political prisoner Verisheh Moradi (Wirishe Moradi), who is on death row, is being denied access to vital medical care despite suffering from serious health conditions, including a herniated cervical disc and spinal canal stenosis, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. In March 2024, Moradi was examined by a neurologist and both the specialist and the medical team at Evin Prison recommended immediate…

Iran has executed Rouhollah Moradian, a man from Kuhdasht, Lorestan Province, for drug-related offences in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj, Alborz Province. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the prisoner was transferred to solitary confinement in recent days in preparation for his execution, which took place at dawn on 7 May. Moradian was arrested about five years ago on drug-related charges and later…

Security forces today arrested Kurdish civilians Omid Ebrahimi, Yasser Sharifian, and Rashid Faghizadeh in Oshnavieh, West Azerbaijan Province, taking them to an undisclosed location. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that security forces raided their family homes and arrested them without warrants. The fate of the detainees and the charges against them remain unknown.

The Civil Registry Office in Chaldoran, West Azerbaijan Province, has issued the death certificate of Kurdish political prisoner Hamid Hosseinnezhad Heidaranlou, several weeks after his secret execution, and handed it over to his family. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the certificate was officially issued on 5 May, following a visit by the prisoner’s family to the local civil registry office. The document…

Motalleb Ahmadian, a 42-year-old Kurdish political prisoner serving the 15th year of a 30-year sentence in Tehran’s Evin Prison, went on a hunger strike on 5 May, protesting the Tehran Prosecutor’s refusal to grant him medical leave or suspend his sentence despite his deteriorating health. Ahmadian suffers from a number of serious illnesses, including duodenal cancer, diaphragmatic hernia, spinal canal stenosis, and a urinary tract…

Kurdish political prisoners Vahid Chavaran, Nasser Rezaei, and Mohammad Hassan Hasseli, who were sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment in exile following their arrest during the anti-government Women, Life, Freedom uprising, have been secretly transferred to remote prisons across Iran. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that on 4 May, Chavaran, Rezaei and Hasseli were transferred from Ilam Central Prison to Zahedan Prison in…

The Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has prevented the temporary leave of Kurdish political prisoner Khaled Zamani, despite the approval of the prison authorities and the prosecutor in Yazd, Yazd Province. Zamani, who is currently serving the 17th year of a 30-year sentence in Yazd Central Prison, had received permission for a temporary leave from the prison’s Classification Council and the…

Branch 31 of the Court of Administrative Justice has upheld the dismissal of Somayyeh Akhtar-Shomar, a 37-year-old Kurdish teacher from Marivan, Kurdistan Province, with 17 years of service. The original decision to dismiss the Kurdish teacher was taken on 17 March 2024 by the Primary Disciplinary Committee of Civil Servants in Kurdistan Province. The authorities accused Akhtar-Shomar of “supporting and assisting opposition groups”, “publishing offensive content…

In its monthly reports, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) highlights cases of human rights violations in Kurdistan and violations of the rights of Kurdish civilians in different regions and cities across Iran. This report includes all cases recorded and reported by KHRN from across Iran through its own sources and verification mechanisms from 1 April to 30 April. The restrictive environment for independent human rights…