Kolbar Fardin Veysi was severely injured by gunfire from Iranian border guards in the Hangeh-ye Zhal border area of Baneh, Kurdistan Province, on 6 April. Veysi was among a group of kolbars who were shot by border guards with pellet guns at close range and without warning, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. He sustained serious injuries to his abdomen and hand from the…
Read moreThis report addresses the violations of the human rights of Kurdish civilians in Iran during the Iranian year 1402 (21 March 2023 – 19 March 2024). As in previous years, the rights of Kurdish people have continued to be violated due to their language, religions, culture, genders, sexual orientations, and class and political affiliations by the Islamic Republic’s discriminatory laws and repressive and violent…
Read moreThree Sunni Kurdish religious activists have been subjected to enforced disappearance since their arrest by security forces in August 2022, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Brothers Jamshid Ahmadi and Afshin Ahmadi were arrested by security forces in Sanandaj on 18 August 2022, while Shahram Ebadian, their sister’s husband, was also detained by plainclothes officers the following day, 19 August, when he visited…
Read moreSecurity forces arrested Kurdish civilians Kamran Badbrout and Faraj Arsan on 3 April and took them to an undisclosed location for their participation in the Newroz (also known as Nowruz in Persian) celebrations in Malekshahi, Ilam Province. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that security forces raided the duo’s home in Malekshahi and arrested them without a warrant. Thousands of people attended the Newroz…
Read moreThe second branch of the Court of Appeals in Van, south-eastern Turkey, has upheld the six-year, three-month prison sentence handed down to Kurdish environmental activist and former political prisoner Mahyar Ahmadi from Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province. Ahmadi, who was arrested on 12 September 2023 by Turkish border guards at the border between the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and Turkey, was sentenced by a Turkish court in…
Read moreSakineh Parvaneh, a Kurdish political prisoner serving a sentence of seven years and six months in Mashhad Prison, was transferred to the women’s ward of Evin Prison in Tehran on 3 April for unspecified reasons. She had previously requested to be transferred to Quchan Prison in Razavi Khorasan Province because her family lives in the city. Parvaneh was arrested by the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic…
Read moreIn 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 March to 31 March. The restrictive environment for independent human rights…
Read moreOmid Ghadimi, the brother of Foad Ghadimi, a protester killed during the Women, Life, Freedom uprising in Divandarreh, Kurdistan Province, has been sentenced to a total of 40 months in prison and a fine of 85 million rials – nearly 150 USD. The Islamic Revolutionary Court in Divandarreh charged Ghadimi with “membership of the Komala [Party of Iranian Kurdistan]”, “propaganda activities against the state”, and…
Read moreNayeb Askari, a Kurdish political prisoner facing the death penalty, has been returned to the general ward of Orumiyeh Central Prison after one day in solitary confinement, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Askari was placed in solitary confinement on 27 March after a verbal altercation with prison officers. The move was ordered by the prison director as a form of punishment. However,…
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