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January 13, 2024

Special report: 23 women killed, dozens arrested, sentenced, fired from jobs

This report details cases of femicide, suspicious deaths of women, as well as the arrest and imprisonment of Kurdish women activists and their removal from their positions between 25 November 2022

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March 17, 2023

Special report: Mohyeddin Ebrahimi’s arrest, trial, execution

Kurdish political prisoner Mohyeddin Ebrahimi was executed today at Orumiyeh Central Prison, in north-western Iran. At the same time, the death sentences of four other Kurdish civilians, Yasin

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January 11, 2023

Details of 121 Kurdish people killed during Mahsa (Jina) Amini protests in Iran

According to Iran Human Rights, a total of 481 people have been killed so far during the Mahsa (Jina) Amini protests across Iran, including in Iran’s Kurdish region. KHRN data of confirmed deaths

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June 7, 2022

Kermanshah: Situation of women’s section in Juvenile Detention Centre

The families of some of the prisoners in the women’s ward of the Juvenile Detention Centre in Kermanshah spoke to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) about the grave situation in the

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November 25, 2021

Special report: 61 women committed suicide, 25 murdered in seven months in Kurdistan, Iran

On the occasion of 25 November, International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has prepared a detailed report on cases of genocide, honour

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November 5, 2021

Special report: Anniversary of Kurdish political prisoner Sherko Moarefi’s execution

On 3 November 2013, Kurdish political prisoner Sherko Moarefi was suddenly transferred to solitary confinement in Saqqez Prison without the prior notice of his lawyer and family. He was executed

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October 29, 2021

A Report by Kurdistan Human Rights Network on Secret Detention Centres of Iranian Security Institutions in Kermanshah, Sanandaj, Orumiyeh

The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has prepared this report to draw the attention of international human rights organisations to the situation of secret detention centres of two security

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October 25, 2021

Special report: Execution anniversary of Kurdish political prisoners Habibollah Golparipour and Reza Mamadi

On 25 October 2013, Habibollah Golparipour in Orumiyeh Central Prison and Reza Mamadi in Salmas Prison were suddenly transferred to solitary confinement without the prior notice of their lawyers and

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September 13, 2021

Special report: Executed Kurdish political prisoner Kamal Ahmadnezhad

Three years ago, Iran executed Kurdish political prisoner Kamal Ahmadnezhad in Miandoab Central Prison in West Azerbaijan province on 10 September 2018. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN)

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NEWS

Political prisoners protest poor prison food in Orumiyeh

Political prisoners in the “Ershad” security ward of Orumiyeh Central Prison have refused prison food in protest at its poor…

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Kurdish man held incommunicado week after arrest without warrant

Yousef Karimi, a Kurdish citizen from Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province, has been held incommunicado for one week following his arrest…

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Kurdish couple held in secret over Starlink use transferred to Hamadan prison

Zeynab Azizi and Sirwan Amini, a Kurdish couple from Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, have been transferred to Hamadan Central Prison after…

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Kurdish man denied family contact, legal counsel two weeks after arrest

Diako Ayazi, a Kurdish citizen from Baneh, Kurdistan Province, remains detained incommunicado two weeks after being arrested by Islamic Revolutionary…

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Iran court sentences young Kurdish protester to death

Mohsen Eslamkhah, a 20-year-old Kurdish citizen who was arrested in connection with the “Women, Life, Freedom” uprising in Bukan, has…

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Kurdish man remains forcibly disappeared 10 months after wartime arrest

Saeid Safaei, a Kurdish citizen from Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province, has been missing for nearly 10 months after being arrested…

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IRGC Intelligence forces shoot, detain Tehran man during home raid

Mohammad Ebadi, a citizen from Tehran, has been shot in the hand and arrested by Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)…

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Prisoner faces imminent execution after death sentence upheld

Yaghoub Karimpour, an Azerbaijani Turkic citizen and member of the Yarsan religious minority with disabilities, faces imminent execution after the…

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Political prisoners face execution risk amid escalating conflict

Concerns over the safety of prisoners, particularly political prisoners, have sharply intensified following the onset of US and Israeli military…

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IRGC intelligence forces shoot detainees before transfer to Tehran prisons

The intelligence forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have shot detained civilians in the hands and legs before…

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Four Kurdish citizens detained, fate unknown amid wartime strikes

Security forces have arrested four Kurdish citizens in Mahabad and Piranshahr, in West Azerbaijan Province, and transferred them to undisclosed…

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