Kurdistan Human Rights Network

The Iranian Ministry of Intelligence has arrested “more than 40 Kurdish activists and civilians” in the cities of Sanandaj, Kamyaran, Marivan, Saqqez, Baneh and Divandarah over the past months for

According to the information obtained by Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), more than 40 Sunni civilians in various cities of Kurdistan have been arrested by security forces on charges of

Ten detained Iranian Kurdish activists are under pressure to make false confessions, with influential imams and officials demanding their immediate execution. Recent changes to the

Since the victory of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Revolution, Kurdistan has always witnessed massive civil protests for various reasons. Recent protests concerned the execution of political

Since 2008, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have destroyed a large part of Shaho and Kosalan areas known as protected areas by building military bases in the highlands of Shaho and

Two days after the strong earthquake (measuring 7.2 magnitude on Richter scale) hit many Kurdish areas in western Iran, the residents of the earthquake-stricken areas in the Qasr-e-Shirin, Sar-Pol-e

Kurdistan Human Rights Netwrok (KHRN)- Sherko Moarefi, a native of the Kurdish border town of Baneh, was 33 at the time of his arrest by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps in a village near his

On 9th August 2016, the second anniversary of the execution of the Kurdish political prisoner called Sirwan Nazhawi in Tabriz Central Prison, Kurdistan Human Rights Network publishes a report

26 August 2016 was the first anniversary of the execution by hanging of Kurdish political activist prisoner Behrooz Alxani. He was a Kurdish political prisoner in Orumiyeh Central Prison. KHRN has