Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Mohsen Esfandiari-Tabar and Lotfollah Parviz, two Kurdish civil rights activists from Gilan-e-Gharb, Kermanshah Province, have been provisionally released on bail after being detained for several weeks, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Esfandiari-Tabar, a 38-year-old navy lieutenant colonel, was released on bail of 10 billion rials (nearly 20,000 USD), while Parviz, a 48-year-old teacher, was released on a 20-billion-rials bail (40,000 USD) on...

The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) and 25 other human rights organisations have issued a joint statement condemning the death sentence handed down to Kurdish woman activist Pakhshan Azizi. The groups call for the immediate cancellation of the sentence and Azizi's release. Expressing "deep concern" about the fate of political prisoners facing death sentences in Iran, the letter reads in part: "We strongly condemn the issuance...

The Iranian authorities executed Feyzollah Hosseinpour and Soleyman Ghahremani, two prisoners convicted of "premeditated murder", on 9 September in Miandoab Prison in West Azerbaijan Province. The two men were transferred to solitary confinement on 8 September in preparation for their executions. They were sentenced to death after being found guilty of "premeditated murder", a crime punishable by qisas, which gives the victim's family the right to...

Security forces have arrested at least nine more Kurdish civilians in recent days as the authorities intensify their crackdown ahead of the second anniversary of the Women, Life, Freedom uprising. Kurdish civilian Rashed Advaei was arrested this morning without a warrant by security forces at his home in the village of Selin in Sarvabad, Kurdistan Province. On 8 September, security forces raided the home of Kurdish...

Kurdish asylum-seeker Behzad Khosravi, a member of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI), has been handed over to Iranian authorities after being detained by security forces in Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan Region of Iraq, according to his family. Khosravi, who had been living in the Kurdistan Region since 2014, was arrested on 18 August. His family learned of his extradition through a phone call from the Ministry...