Iran executed today prisoner Faramarz Shakhsi for drug-related offences in Orumiyeh Central Prison in West Azerbaijan province.
Shakhsi, 29, was a father of two from the village of Nalas in Sardasht, West Azerbaijan province.
He was arrested several years ago and sentenced to death on drug-related charges.
Whereabouts of Kurdish retired teacher and civil rights activist Salman Olfati, who was arrested by the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps...
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Read MoreSaman Oveysi, a 21-year-old Kurdish civilian, has been detained following a telephone summons to the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)...
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Whereabouts of Kurdish retired teacher and civil rights activist Salman Olfati, who was arrested by the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Gilan-e Gharb, Kermanshah Province, on 12 April, remain unknown. Olfati, 60, was arrested on a street in Gilan-e Gharb and taken to an undisclosed location. IRGC intelligence agents also conducted a raid on the activist's family home without presenting a...
Two kolbars were killed by gunfire from Iranian border guards in separate incidents in the border areas of Bitush in Sardasht, West Azerbaijan Province, and Bastam in Saqqez, Kurdistan Province, on 13 April. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that a group of kolbars in the mountainous areas of Bitush village in Sardasht were targeted by border guards, resulting in the death of...
Saman Oveysi, a 21-year-old Kurdish civilian, has been detained following a telephone summons to the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Mahabad, West Azerbaijan Province, in recent days. Details of Oveysi's place of detention and the specific charges against him remain unknown at this time. Over the past three weeks, at least 19 Kurdish civilians and activists have been arrested in the...
Kamal Lotfi, the father of Reza Lotfi, one of the protesters killed during the anti-government uprising of Women, Life, Freedom in Dehgolan, Kurdistan Province, was arrested on 9 April and taken to an undisclosed location. This is Lotfi's second detention, following his first arrest by security forces in April 2023, from which he was later released on bail. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned...
Mostafa Hamdi, a media activist and administrator of the Porseman Telegram group, was arrested by security forces in Saqqez, Kurdistan province, on 7 April and taken to an undisclosed location. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the arrest took place without a judicial warrant being presented by the security forces. The reason for Hamdi's arrest and his current whereabouts remain unknown. Previously, in August...