A 24-year-old pregnant woman called “Arezoo Darwishi, from Mahabad, suffered from a brain haemorrhage after cesarean operation and went into a coma lost her life. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that on Saturday, Oct 28, 2018, Arezoo Darwishi, was taken to the Imam Khomeini Hospital in Mahabad two weeks before her delivery date due to feeling pain. She went under…
Read moreA female prisoner detained at Khoy Prison was sentenced to death by the Criminal Court (Branch1) of Khoy on charges of adultery (sex outside marriage). Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that Golestan Jankanloo (married with two children from one of the villages of Maku), who was arrested and charged with adultery (sex outside marriage) in 2017 has been sentenced to death by…
Read moreIn the past few days, a pregnant woman has died of unexplained reasons after a normal childbirth at the Social Security Hospital of Saqqez while another pregnant woman from Mahabad suffered a brain haemorrhage after cesarean. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that, on Saturday morning of Oct 28, 2018, a pregnant woman from Saqqez called Leila Braei, lost her life after normal…
Read moreA female prisoner detained in Khoy Prison, who was arrested on November 2016, was accused of adultery (sex outside marriage) after being sued by her husband and has been sentenced to death by the Criminal Court (Branch 1). This prisoner has been identified as Zahra Derakhshani, born in 1982, married and a resident of Khoy. She was arrested with another citizen from Khoy on November…
Read moreDuring the past month, women imprisoned at Khoy Prison have been transferred to the prison meeting hall, where they are kept in unfavourable conditions without access to a bed, breaks in the prison yard or weekly visit, on the pretext of carrying out repairs. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that, in early October, prison authorities have transferred 40 female prisoners to the…
Read moreDespite more than ten days since the arrest of two female civil activists in Ilam and Sanandaj, no information has been received about their fate and whereabouts. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that Ilam Intelligence Forces raided the home of activist, Negisa Shahbazi on Monday, Aug 6, 2018 and arrested her while searching her home. She was then transferred to the Intelligence…
Read moreOn July 30, following the announcement of a three-day hunger strike by Zeynab Jalalian along with nine prisoners of ordinary offences in protest to being deprived of weekly visits and basic prison facilities, one of the websites linked to the Ministry of Intelligence denied the strike’s news in an interview with a person called “Mostafa Moloodi”who introduced himself as Zeynab Jalalian’s lawyer. However, in a…
Read moreZeynab Jalalian, along with nine prisoners of ordinary offences, went on hunger strike in protest to being deprived of weekly visits and basic prison facilities. Kurdish Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that prison authorities had discovered a mobile phone following an inspection of the prisoners’ section during the past few days. The prison guard has questioned Zeynab Jalalian and nine other prisoner several times…
Read moreA group of Sunni prisoners detained at Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj has on hunger strike for three days to condemn raping a number of women in Iranshahr. The prisoners who were detained at Ward 21 of Section 7 Rajai Shahr prison said that they would strike from Saturday, July 21 to Monday 25 in protest to the rape as well support of the victims…
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