Information regarding the fate of detained wounded Iranian Kurdish opposition member Ramin Hossein Panahi and members of his family has remained unknown since he was arrested after armed clashes with Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) in the city of Sanandaj on 23 June. A reliable source spoke to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) about the incident and said that Hamza’s Revolutionary Guards in the Shalaman…
Read moreOn Friday, June 23, after an intense clash between the members of the Komala party and Iran Revolutionary Guards in Sanandaj, three Kurdish Peshmerga were killed. The IRGC summoned the families of the victims and warning them not to hold funerals for their killed family members. An informed source told the Human Rights Network Kurdistan that on early Friday morning, passengers of a car (Peugeot)…
Read moreKurdistan Human Rights Network (June 6 2017): Over the past few days, all versions of the Kurdish language instruction book (in Kurmanji) has been banned by the Intelligence Service in Khorasan Razavi province, despite having permission from the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance. Alireza Sepahi Laeen, a Kurdish known journalists and authors of Northern Khorasan in an open letter said ban of this book is…
Read moreA Kurdish citizen, Rashid Sharafian from Palangan village (Kurdistan, Iran), has been in temporary detention in the Sanandaj Intelligence detention centre since his arrest in March 2017. Rashid Sharafian a member of the committee to organise the Nowruz gathering in Palangan village have been arrested on 24 march 2017 by security forces in Sanandaj. He was able to contact his family a few times and…
Read moreIn the last two days, Ayoub Asadi’s family, a Kurdish political prisoner, travelled from Marivan to Kashmar to visit their son in prison. But each time, the prison guards and Kashmar’s Court were referred them to a different excuse. According to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network, on April 27, the families of Ayoub Asadi, attended the Court in Kashmar after visiting their son in prison…
Read moreSix Kurdish citizens of the village of ‘Ghoreh Saghl’ in the neighbourhood of Oshnavieh(Also known in Kurdish as Shno ) were recently sentenced to death and long jail sentences in Iran after they were charged with “Moharebeh” (Enmity against God) in Iranian Penal Code because of their alleged membership in an Kurdish party. According to information obtained by Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), back in June…
Read moreBranch 10 of Orumiyeh( Also known as Urmiye) Court of Appeal has sentenced a Kurdish civil rights activist to three years in prison on charges of “acting against national security” for contacts with foreign media and human rights organizations. Armed forces of the Intelligence Office of Boukan arrested Kurdish civil rights activist Ismael Sanyar 13 December 2015. He was accused of sending reports and news to…
Read moreAfter a two-year-and-a-half silence, the Iranian judicial authorities and central prison of Kermanshah have disclosed information on the fate of a Kurdish political prisoner that the Iranian security forces had arrested 30 months ago. A reliable source told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that “on 1 June 2014, Saywan Rahimi, a former political prisoner who previously served a prison sentence, was ambushed by…
Read moreIranian security forces have carried out mass arrests of Kurdish citizens in the past few weeks in Boukan and Naghadeh(Naqadeh) areas, according to reliable local sources. A Kurdish student of physical education studies was arrested in Naghadeh city’s main street along with Shayan Haji Talkhabi said to be a make-up artist, on 29 October, according to a reliable source. The security forces immediately…
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