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 confirms death of Kurdish protester prisoner, bans his funeral Iranian authorities have confirmed the death of a 24-year-old detained Kurdish protester 11 days after his arrest and prevented his family from holding a funeral after officers…
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’s Kurdish regions militarized amid anti-government protests Iranian police, security forces and the loyalist militias of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) have been deployed across the country’s Kurdish areas amid on-going anti-government protests. Locals, sources and activists…
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 arrest Kurdish anti-government protesters in Kermanshah Iranian security forces and plainclothes agents of the intelligence ministry have abducted and detained dozens of protesters who had demonstrated against government’s economic policies and demanded the release…
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 injure three Kurdish Kolbars in Baneh Iranian armed forces have opened fire wounding three Kurdish Kolbar workers in the Baneh area. They wounded 30-year-old Kolbar Karzar Azizai and 27-year old Mehdi Ahmadpour on 21 December, a…
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. Injured Iranian Kurdish prisoner ends hunger strike in Sanandaj Iranian Kurdish political prisoner Ramin Hussein Panahi has ended his hunger strike iafter he was allowed to meet his brother and the authorities promising to look into…
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. Kurdish political prisoners go on strike to protest Iran jails Kurdish journalist and poet Alireza Sepahi Laine has gone on hunger strike to protest against what he has described as his “illegal detention” at the hands of…
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. Detained Kurds remain missing after deadly clashes in Iran’s Chaldoran Kurdish civilians detained after deadly clashes between an outlawed Kurdish party and Iranian forces have remained missing, local reliable sources have said.. Clashes broke out between an armed…
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 continue killing Kurdish Kolbars in border areas Iran’s Disciplinary Forces (NAJA) have killed a Kurdish Kolbar and injured two others. The Kolbars were targeted in the Shaanayi Sheikh border region without any prior warnings, a source…
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 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…
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