Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish Civilian Omid Karami was sentenced to one year of imprisonment and 74 Lashes by branch 2 of Criminal Court on charges of “disturbing public order and closing public roads” on January 20.  He was detained in Sanandaj by security forces a day after a protest rally against the Turkish army’s attack on northern and east Syria but he was released…

In recent days, a Kurdish civil activist called “Saeed Dadgar” has been summoned to the Kamyaran Intelligence office and interrogated for several hours, informed sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). Security investigators reportedly interrogated him on charges of “Cooperation with one of the opposition parties” and he was severely beaten during the interrogation. During the past two months, dozens of Kurdish…

Iranian security and military authorities have resorted to widespread suppression, violence against civilians, torture, murder and even sexually abusing children. following the November protests shook several Iranian cities. According to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network’s (KHRN) investigation, more than a thousand civilians have been arrested in the Kurdish cities alone and the fate of some of them still remains unclear.  The KHRN has interviewed a number of eyewitnesses and informed…

An 80-year-old woman, mother of a prisoner who had rejected the prison’s report about death of her son in his fifth day of his hunger strike, was flogged with 70 lashes at Khoy Prison on 28 November 2019 a source told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN).  Following flogging her with 70 lashes as per a verdict issued by Khoy Court, she was then taken to…

The Iranian security forces have put detained students under severe physical and psychological torture in solitary confinement, confirmed a civilian recently released from the custody. Local Sources in Marivan reported continuing detention and torture of civilians at the Ministry of Intelligence Detention Centre in Marivan. “Security forces raided Shariati Mariwan High School in the past days and arrested two students,” a source told KHRN. The security forces had refused to…

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that prisoners held at Saqqez Prison have protested to the “exile of several prisoners and cancellation of short-term furloughs on October 7 per the order issued by the Chief Justice of the Kurdistan Province,” and as a result, the protesting prisoners have clashed with the the prison guards who confronted them. “The clashes between the prisoners and the Saqqez prison guards began at…

Three Kurdish political prisoners held at the Military Ward of Kerman Central Prison went on hunger strike in protest of being under pressure of the prison guards on September 28, a source confirmed to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN. The three prisoners Taher Khorshidi, Amir Peyghami and Faruq Sharwerani, demanded in a letter to be transferred to the open prison or back to Orumiyeh…

Two Kurdish political prisoners, Mohammad (Esmat) Salahshour and Shaker Behrouzi, are being pressured to confess to killing a member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC). The two prisoners were transferred from Orumiyeh Central Prison to IRGC Detention Centre in Orumiyeh in March and May respectively. “Mohammed Salahshour was transferred back to Orumiyeh Central Prison after four days of interrogation but Shaker Behrouzi is still…

The Kurdish singer ‘Peyman Mirzazadeh’ ended his hunger strike at Orumiyeh Central Prison. He had begun a hunger strike five days ago in protest to being sentenced to 100 lashes and two years of imprisonment. A reliable source has told Kurdish Human Rights Network (KHRN) that Peyman Mirzazadeh had ended his hunger strike upon the authorities’ favourable promises and his cellmates requests. “Due to being…