A reliable source in the Kurdish region has told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that Piranshahr border guards had detained 12 Kurdish civilians from the Kurdistan province in Iraq and detained more than 400 sheep owned by these detainees. According to the source, yesterday at 03:00 am, a group of border guards of the Islamic Republic of Iran based in the border areas of the…
Read moreFive Kurdish activists were arrested in Marivan and surrounding villages transferred to an unknown location by security forces affiliated with the Marivan intelligence Office and . A reliable source from Marivan has told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that the ministry of intelligence in Marivan had summoned four activists- Ali Rezaei and Omid Salehi, from the village of Gouzak Kavir, Fateh Hoshmand from the village…
Read moreArasteh Ranjbar and Nazdar Vathnkhah, two women sentenced to execution on the charge of murder, have been summoned by the execution office of the Orumiyeh Central Prison and told that their death sentences would be carried out in a month if the “blood owners (Oliya-e-dam)” did not show leniency towards them. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that the two prisoners were sentenced…
Read moreKurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Zeynab Jalalian a political prisoner sentenced to life imprisonment who is held at Khoy prison, is deprived of the right to medical treatment and furlough. A reliable source told KHRN that “Unfortunately, the health condition of Zeynab Jalalian -who has been imprisoned for the past 12 years- is deteriorating. This political prisoner has been suffering from pterygium (a pinkish, triangular…
Read moreFarhad Mohammadi, a lawyer and secretary of the National Unity Party in Kurdistan, was released on bail. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that this lawyer was released from Sanandaj Central Prison at noon on Tuesday, July 9, 2019 after a 6-month detention on a heavy bail of 500 million Tomans. This activist was arrested on Jan 4, 2019 following the massive arrest of…
Read moreKurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): The status of two Kurdish civilians knownas Zahra Mohammadi and Iran Rahpeykar still remains uncertain as they are held by temporary arrest warrant in Sanandaj Correctional Centre while the political prisoner ‘Sahar Kazemi’ deprived of the right to leave and conditional release. KHRN has been informed that Zahra Mohammadi, a civil activist and a member of the Nozhin cultural-social association…
Read moreKurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Kurdish Labourer, ‘Isaac Rouhi” has been released on a bail of 100 million Tomans from Sanandaj Central Prison after 32 days of arrest. Branch 2 of the Public Prosecution and Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj had previously issued a bail of 500 million Tomans for his release. However, upon contesting this verdict, the amount of the bail of this activist was…
Read moreKurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): A group of civil activists were arrested in Marivan by law enforcement forces following a peaceful protest to end violence against women on May 16, 2019. “The violence against women has been intensified recently, they are either killed by their relatives or by unknown people. For hundreds of years, women have fallen victim to male-dominated cultures and they are being…
Read moreKurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): A worker, ‘Isaac Rouhi” was returned to the Sanandaj Central Prison quarantine due to his inability to secure his 500 million Tomans bail. “On May 1, 2019, Isaac Rouhi was arrested by security forces when he intended to accompany his family to the International Labour Day at Naysar town in Sanandaj. The agents then took the family back to their…
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