The “Week in brief” by Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) is a weekly review of the most important human rights news and developments from and about Iran’s Kurdish areas. Iran government aid not enough to help earthquake victims Residents of Iranian Kurdish areas hit by a 7.3 magnitude earthquake have said that the government is not providing adequate relief and that the government agencies have not…
Read moreThe “Week in brief” by Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) is a weekly review of the most important human rights news and developments from and about Iran’s Kurdish areas. Iran affirms death penalty for Kurdish political prisoners An Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Court has affirmed death sentences of two Kurdish political prisoners charged with “enmity against God”. The death sentences were issued after the two prisoners spent years…
Read moreThe “Week in brief” by Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) is a weekly review of the most important human rights news and developments from and about Iran’s Kurdish areas. Prisoner hanged on murder charges in Iran’s Orumiyeh A death row prisoner, Tohid Mohammad Baqerloo, from the city of Khoy, was executed in Iran’s Orumiyeh Central Prison on 1 November. He was transferred from the prison’s ward 1-2…
Read moreThe “Week in brief” by Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) is a weekly review of the most important human rights news and developments from and about Iran’s Kurdish areas. Iran forces shoot dead a Kurdish tradesperson in Orumiyeh Iranian armed forces have opened fire on two civilian Kurdish tradesmen and killed one of them while the other escaped in the Al-Wassan area of Orumiyeh Province. The Kurdish…
Read moreThe “Week in brief” by Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) is a weekly review of the most important human rights news and developments from and about Iran’s Kurdish areas. Iran court jails two Kurdish political prisoners for five years Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Court in Orumiyeh has sentenced two Kurdish defendants, Kamran Mousazadeh and Fakhreddin Esris, to five years in prison, respectively. They were sentenced on charges of…
Read moreIran security forces interrogate Kurdish labour activists The Law Enforcement Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran have questioned four Kurdish labour activists in Sanandaj following a new wave of clampdown on labour activists in Iran’s Kurdish areas. Two of the activists, Sharif Saeed Panah and Muzaffar Salehnia, are members of Free Trade Union of Iran Workers. The other two activists, Galib Hosseini and Khalid Hosseini, are…
Read moreIranian forces continue arresting pro-independence Kurdish demonstrators Iranian intelligence agents and security forces have continued to arrest and interrogate civilian Kurds who had taken part in celebrations after a referendum on Kurdish statehood was held in neighbouring Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan Region. KHRN has obtained names of some of those Iranian Kurds detained and questioned at various detention centres of the Iranian security forces in some of…
Read moreIran fiercely crackdown on mass Kurdish pro-independence rallies Iranian security forces have detained dozens of Kurds following widespread public rallies across cities and towns of Iran’s Kurdish region, which cheered an independence referendum held by neighbouring Iraqi Kurdistan on 25 September. Iran’s Kurds poured into the streets on the eve of 25 September chanting slogans in support of the Iraqi Kurdish independence vote. Iranian intelligence agents and…
Read moreIran executes a man publicly in Ilam for murder Iranian authorities publicly executed a prisoner on murder charges at the Modarres street in the morning of 17 September in the city of Ilam, The prisoner was sentenced to death last December for having killed a woman. He was executed on Qisas law at the request of the victim’s family. This was the second public execution in Ilam in…
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