MULTIMEDIA

IRGC intelligence forces violently arrest father, son in Bukan

The Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) raided the home of Kurdish civilian Abdollah Gholizadeh in Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province, at…

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Monthly Report of November 2024

In its monthly reports, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) highlights cases of human rights violations in Kurdistan and violations of the rights of…

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Security forces arrest two Kurdish civilians, locations unknown

Kurdish civilians Amir Mohammad-Khani and Behzad Dadkhah have been arrested by security forces in recent days and taken to undisclosed locations. Mohammad-Khani, a civil…

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Kurdish civilian arrested in Bukan after IRGC intelligence summons

Hiwa Bahin, a Kurdish civilian from Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province, was arrested by security forces on 24 November . The Kurdistan Human Rights Network…

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Prisoner executed in Rasht for drug-related offences

Shir-Ali Tarkesh-Band, a prisoner from Sahneh, Kermanshah Province, was executed for drug-related offences on 27 November in Lakan Prison in Rasht, Gilan Province. Tarkesh-Band,…

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Rights groups call for annulment of death sentences for Verisheh Moradi, Pakhshan Azizi

The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) and 17 other human rights organisations have issued a joint statement condemning the death sentences handed down to…

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Appeals court reduces Kurdish activist’s sentence to five years

The Kurdistan Province Court of Appeal has reduced the prison sentence of Srwa Pour-Mohammadi, a Kurdish language teacher and board member of the Nozhin…

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Prisoners plead for intervention as amputation sentences loom

Three prisoners in Orumiyeh Central Prison, Hadi Rostami, Mehdi Shahivand and Mehdi Sharafian, have written an open letter to human rights organisations warning of…

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Kurdish activist held without charge, subjected to daily questioning

Kurdish civil rights activist Seyran Khosravi, who was arrested last week in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, continues to be detained in the city’s Juvenile Detention…

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Kurdish political prisoner suffers burns in prison assaults

Political prisoner Azad Abbasi has been subjected to severe assaults while serving his one-year prison sentence in Qorveh Prison, Kurdistan Province. The Kurdistan Human…

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Iran executes four prisoners in one week for drug, murder offences

Iran has executed four men for drug and murder-related offences in prisons in Kermanshah, Saqqez, Hamadan and Karaj in the past week. On 20…

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