Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Prisoners Mojtaba Amiri, Manouchehr Barzgar, Sirous Heidari, Khaled Rouhi and Kamal Elhami have been executed over the past two days in Karaj, Alborz Province, and Sanandaj and Saqqez, Kurdistan Province. Amiri and Barzgar were executed on 5 December on charges of "drug trafficking" after being transferred to solitary confinement for execution with two other prisoners in Karaj Central Prison the day before. The identities and fate...

Kurdish language teacher and former political prisoner Zara Mohammadi was awarded the first Jemal Nebez Prize for her efforts to teach and promote the Kurdish language at a ceremony in Berlin's Schoneberg town hall on 3 December. The event, attended by members of the Kurdish community in Germany and international supporters, was organised by the Jemal Nebez Foundation. The foundation, which was established a year after...

Zeynab Jalalian, a Kurdish political prisoner serving a life sentence, is facing deteriorating health conditions in her sixteenth year in Yazd Central Prison. Despite suffering from pterygium, foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), impaired vision, asthma, kidney and digestive problems, Jalalian has been denied medical treatment due to opposition from the Ministry of Intelligence. Recently, Jalalian was interrogated by a Ministry of Intelligence team, restrained with handcuffs and...

Lawyers representing Reza Rasaei, a political prisoner sentenced to death, have successfully raised objections leading to the referral of his case to the Supreme Court, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Rasaei, a Yarsani Kurdish civilian, was sentenced to death for "complicity in the murder" of Nader Beyrami, the head of the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Sahneh,...

Security services in Sardasht and Oshnavieh in West Azerbaijan Province have summoned and detained some Kurdish artists who held a memorial ceremony for the Kurdish artist and political activist Taher Khalili, who recently passed away in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The event, held in a private garden in Sardasht, paid tribute to Khalili by performing one of his revolutionary songs. Following the widespread circulation of...