Ayoub Asadi, the political prisoner in his seventh year of imprisonment in Kashmar, was supposed to be granted a furlough on a bail of 250 Million Iranian Tomans but Kashmar Prosecutor’s Office opposed to his sick leave. His mother had a heart attack after being informed about the opposition to her son’s leave and she is currently hospitalised in Hamedan. Kurdistan Human Rights Network…
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A Kurdish citizen from the Gachini village of Orumiyeh was arrested and taken to the Orumiyeh Central Prison to serve a one-year prison sentence on charges of spreading anti-government propaganda. The Revolutionary Court of Orumiyeh has initially sentenced Behzad Mahmoud Nezhad to five years in prison on charges of membership in the outlawed Kurdistan Democratic Party – Iran (KDPI, also known by its Kurdish…
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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…
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Over the past few days, a Sunni Kurdish prisoner was detained in the central prison of Ourmiyeh, sentenced to death by the Ourmiyeh Revolutionary Court on charges of Moharebeh (waging war against God). An informed source told Human Rights Network Kurdistan that Davood Mihandoost,22, Kurdish citizen of Tarzlu area of Ourmiyeh, was arrested along with five other citizens by security forces in June, 2016. These…
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Mohabbat Mahmoudi, women imprisoned in the women’s ward of Orumiyeh Central Prison in an open letter in the seventeenth year of her imprisonment, called for financial assistance from people and international organisations to pay the blood money(Diyeh) to the victim’s family. She has also asked people and human rights organisations to try to secure her release. Mahmoudi, the 60 years old prisoner is married and…
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Kurdish political prisoner Hassan Rastegari Majd was flogged with 20 lashes on charges of disrupting a prison order in Orumiyeh Prison, a source told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). Branch 104 of the second Criminal Court of Orumiyeh sentenced Majd to three months in prison and 20 lashes on charges of disturbing public order. After the prison sentence was finalised for him, the flogging sentence…
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The authorities of Sanandaj Central Prison temporarily halted the execution of a Kurdish death row prisoner on 23 May after his family members and human rights activists held a protest outside the prison. The Kurdish death row prisoner, Hemen Mostafaei, 27, was taken to the prison’s solitary confinement cells in preparation for his execution, but the prison authorities agreed to the demand of his family…
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Over the past few days, a Kurdish political prisoner jailed in Orumiyeh beaten severely and injured by two guards during a visit to the prison clinic. According to Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) Saturday 16 May, Kamran Jafari’s name from Ward 13 of Orumiyeh prison, with several other prisoners were written on the list to go to the prison infirmary due to their illness. But during the…
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Six 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…
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In its monthly reports, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) highlights cases of human rights violations in Kurdistan and violations of the rights of Kurdish civilians in different regions and cities across Iran.
This report includes all cases recorded and reported by KHRN from across Iran through its own sources and verification mechanisms from 1 November to 30 November.
The restrictive environment for independent human rights organisations in Iran, coupled with the pressures faced by individuals subjected to human rights violations and their families, make it difficult to publish accurate and comprehensive reports.
It is therefore important to note that the statistics and information presented in this report do not cover all cases of human rights violations. This report is the result of examining news and reports published by the KHRN and fact-checking of reports published by other human rights organisations and news websites.
Executions
According to KHRN’s findings, Iran executed at least 18 prisoners in Karaj, Orumiyeh, Kermanshah, Ardabil and Ilam during the month of November.
While seven prisoners were executed on charges of “premeditated murder” and nine for “drug trafficking”, prisoners of conscience Ghassem Abasteh and Ayoub Karimi were executed on charges of “spreading corruption on earth” (efsad-e fel arz) after 14 years in prison.
Additionally, one of these prisoners was Nazir Mohammad, an Afghan national, who was executed on drug-related charges in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj.
*Explanation: The KHRN, recognizing the fundamental right to life, publishes and records news and execution statistics without regard to the ethnic background of individuals and the location of the execution. All cases reported to the organisation by credible sources are published after thorough fact-checking.
Femicide
At least five women have been killed by their male family members in Gilabgharb and the village of Qazanchi in Kermanshah in the past month.
Kolbars and tradesmen
In November, at least three kolbars, including a 17-year-old child, were shot dead by Iranian border guards, one kolbar died as a result of a fall from the border heights and another died of frostbite in the western border areas of the country.
A total of 102 kolbars were injured during this period. Of these, 98 were shot by border guards, two fell from border heights, one was injured in a landmine explosion and one was beaten.
Among the injured kolbars shot by border guards were one 14-year-old, two 16-year-olds, six 17-year-olds, two 18-year-olds and three 19-year-olds.
Work-related accidents
On 7 November, at least one worker was killed in a work-related accident in the village of Sorkheh Dezaj in Sanandaj.
Detentions and arrests
Throughout November, Iranian forces arrested at least 31 civilians, including five children, eight activists, a rapper and an imam.
At least five of the detained civilians were sent to prisons in Tehran, Ilam, Saqqez and Sanandaj.
Prison sentences
Last month, Iranian courts sentenced at least four people from Sanandaj to prison terms ranging from one year suspended imprisonment to five years in prison.