Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Security forces arrested Kurdish civilian Edris Dadras on 22 June in his home town of Marivan, Kurdistan Province, and took him to an undisclosed location. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that security forces raided Dadras' family home in the early hours of 22 June, beat him and arrested him without a warrant. Details of the charges against Dadras and his current whereabouts remain...

Senior Iranian judiciary officials have threatened to execute the amputation sentences of four prisoners at Orumiyeh Central Prison in West Azerbaijan Province, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. During a recent visit, Nasser Atbati, the Director General of the Judiciary of West Azerbaijan Province, and Majidi, the Prosecutor of Orumiyeh, met with the prisoners Hadi Rostami, Mehdi Shahivand, Mehdi Sharifian, and Kasra Karami,...

Yousef Haji-Khosh, a member of the Central Council and Executive Committee of the Kurdish United Front, has been sentenced to three years and four months in prison by the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Oshnavieh, West Azerbaijan Province, on charges of "acting against national security" by collaborating with a Kurdish opposition party. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the sentence was handed down...

Law enforcement forces raided the home of civilian Shokr-Reza Rahmani in the village of Guyzheh in Nurabad, Lorestan Province, on 20 June and killed his 18-year-old daughter, Raziyeh Rahmani, by shooting her in the head. A relative of the Rahmani family confirmed the incident to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), saying: "On 20 June, law enforcement forces from the Cheshmeh-ye Sefid post in Nurabad...

Iranian border guards shot and killed Arkan Balvaseh, a 29-year-old kolbar, this morning in the Tateh border area of Hawraman in Sarvabad, Kurdistan Province. A source who spoke to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) said: "In the early hours of Friday 21 June, a group of kolbars in the Tateh border heights, while carrying no goods, were targeted by Iranian border guards at close...