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Additional details emerge on security crackdown at activist’s memorial

Dozens of security forces assaulted a group of civil rights activists from several Kurdish cities on 24 July, following the funeral of Esmaeil Karimi,…

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Law enforcement forces kill 50-year-old civilian in Mahabad

Ahmad Tarman, a 50-year-old civilian from Mahabad, West Azerbaijan Province, was fatally shot by Law Enforcement Forces in the early hours of 24 July…

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IRGC intelligence agents arrest five activists after environmentalist’s funeral

The Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) arrested five Kurdish civil rights activists in Kamyaran, Kurdistan Province, following the funeral of…

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Iran executes prisoner for drug-related charges in Birjand

Prisoner Vahid Vahdani was executed for drug-related offences in Birjand Central Prison in South Khorasan Province on 23 July. Vahdani, a 30-year-old man from…

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Iran executes Kurdish prisoner of conscience after 14 years in jail

Kurdish prisoner of conscience Kamran Sheikheh was executed this morning in Orumiyeh Central Prison in West Azerbaijan Province after 14 years in prison, the…

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Environmental activist dies from injuries sustained in Kamyaran wildfire

Esmaeil Karimi, an environmental activist and employee of the Natural Resources Department in Kamyaran, Kurdistan Province, has died from severe burns sustained while fighting…

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Iran court sentences Kurdish activist Pakhshan Azizi to death

Pakhshan Azizi, a Kurdish activist who has been detained for almost a year, has been sentenced to death by the Islamic Revolutionary Court in…

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Mother of forcibly disappeared PJAK member appeals to international community for help

Today marks the third anniversary of the arrest and enforced disappearance of Edris Feqhi, a member of the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK), by…

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Brother of slain protester imprisoned in Sanandaj to serve sentence

Hassan Amini, brother of Mohammad Amini, a protester killed during the Women, Life, Freedom anti-government uprising in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, has been imprisoned in…

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Prisoner executed for murder-related charges in Kermanshah

Authorities executed Khalil Jamali, a prisoner sentenced to death on charges of “premeditated murder”, on 21 July in Dizel Abad Prison in Kermanshah, Kermanshah…

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Tradesman dies in hospital after shooting by Iran border guards

Rebwar Rashidi, a tradesman from Baneh, Kurdistan Province, died on 21 July after spending two weeks in a hospital in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, as…

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