Kurdistan Human Rights Network

The Iranian authorities have executed a prisoner convicted of murder in Sanandaj Central Prison, despite last-minute efforts by activists and community members to halt the sentence. The Kurdistan

Iranian authorities have executed four prisoners convicted of drug-related offences and murder at Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj and Kermanshah Central Prison, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN)

Saeid Ghobadi, a prisoner convicted of murdering his wife, has been executed at Kermanshah Central Prison, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Prison officials carried out

Kurdish journalist and women’s rights activist Zhina Modares Gorji has been released from prison in Sanandaj after completing a 16-month sentence. Her sentence, which also took into account time

An open letter from the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) and REDRESS, signed by 22 human rights organisations and 13 individuals, calls on Iran to provide urgent medical treatment to Zeynab

Kurdish prisoners Nasser Bekrzadeh and Shahin Vasaf, whose initial death sentences were overturned by the Supreme Court, were resentenced in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province. At a retrial in

Bafrin Maroufi, a 43-year-old Kurdish political prisoner from Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province, has been released from Orumiyeh Central Prison after serving her sentence. The Kurdistan Human Rights

Hamid Chapati, a Kurdish civil rights activist from Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province, has been sent to the city’s central prison to serve a six-month sentence on charges of “propaganda against

Iranian authorities have executed six prisoners convicted of drug-related offences and murder in the central prisons of Tabriz and Sanandaj, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has