The Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corp, in coordination with the Ministry of Intelligence of the Islamic Republic of Iran, has turned the Kurdish cities such as Sanandaj, Kamyaran, Shaho, Paweh, Mariwan and Sarwabad into a military garrison through dispatching massive military convoys from neighbouring provinces during the recent weeks. Findings of Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) indicate that, following a massive strike in the bazaar of…
Read moreFollowing the recent conflict between a group of Grila of the Democratic Society and Free of East of Kurdistan (KODAR) and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Friday, Sept 7, 2018 near the village of Pirbagh of Kamyaran, reports indicate tight security measures in the region. During the conflict, three of the four members of the KODAR were killed but one of members…
Read moreFollowing the arrest of dozens of citizen and activists in Kamyaran, Ravansar, Sababdaj, Mariwan, Shno, Bukan and Oroumiyeh by security forces over the past two months, only 9 of the detainees were finally released on bail in the past few days. However, there is still no information about the fate of the other detainees. According to Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), on Saturday, Sept…
Read moreFollowing a call by the Kurdish parties and civil activists for a strike to condemn the execution of four Kurdish political prisoners and the IRGC Missile Attack on Kurdish Parties in the Kurdish region, businesses and shopkeepers closed their shops in a number of cities of Kurdistan today on Wednesday, September 12, 2018. Different sources of Kurdistan Human Rights Network in various cities have reported…
Read moreThe dead body of Eghbal Moradi, a member of the Kurdistan Human Rights Association(KMMK) and the father of Zanyar Moradi’s (a Kurdish political prisoner sentenced to death) was discovered Yesterday morning at 1:30 by security forces in the Penjwen district at the east of Sulaimani in Iraq’s Kurdistan region. According to the findings of the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), he, who has been resident…
Read moreThe security forces have targeted a Kurdish citizen’s vehicle on the Miandoab route to Bokan. This attack resulted in the death of a Kurdish citizen while there is no information on the fate of the other three passengers in the vehicle. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that security forces have targeted a vehicle near the cities of Gojgel and Moshirabad of Miandoab…
Read moreIn the past few days, security forces have arrested at least seven Kurdish civil and cultural activists in Kangavar, Kermanshah, and Koohdasht. There is no information available on the fate of several of them. An anonymous source, who did not want to be identified for security reasons, has told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that on July 05, security forces had attacked the houses of…
Read moreThe Islamic Republic of Guards Corps (IRGC) has banned several ranchers residing in Salmas from animal husbandry in mountain ranges on the pretext of the cooperation of a number of their family members with Kurdish parties, Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that IRGC forces have announced that two Kurdish farmers called Ali Mamdadi and Pezhman Mamedi (residing in the village of Dirak…
Read moreThe ruling of two citizens from Saqqez and a detained citizen of Kamyaran were reduced by the court of appeals. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that the Court of Appeals (branch 4) has reduced the sentence of eighteen million Rials of fine and fifty lashes issued by the Criminal Court of Saqqez in regards to two citizens called “Zamaneh Zivia” and…
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