Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Prisoner Faramarz Moradi was executed on 30 April for drug-related offences in Ardabil Central Prison in Ardabil Province. Moradi, a 31-year-old man from of the village of Harkian in Salmas, West Azerbaijan Province, was sentenced to death about four years ago on charges related to drugs. On 11 February, Nojoumi Moradi, the brother of Faramarz Moradi, was also executed on charges of "premeditated murder" in Orumiyeh...

Kurdish prisoner of conscience Anvar Khezri was executed this morning in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj, Alborz Province, after 14 years in prison, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Khezri was one of seven Kurdish prisoners of conscience who had been sentenced to death in a joint case on charges of "spreading corruption on earth" (efsad-e fel arz). Four of Khezri's co-defendants, Ghassem Abasteh,...

In its monthly reports, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) highlights cases of human rights violations in Kurdistan and violations of the rights of Kurdish civilians in different regions and cities across Iran. This report includes all cases recorded and reported by KHRN from across Iran through its own sources and verification mechanisms from 1 April to 30 April. The restrictive environment for independent human rights...

Security forces today arrested Khaled Ahmadi, a retired teacher and a member of the Kurdistan Teachers’ Union Association, without a warrant during a raid on his home in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Ahmadi's arrest took place while he was scheduled to moderate an online session for the election of the Kurdistan Teachers' Union's executive committee. Details of the...

Mostafa Hamdi, a media activist and administrator of the Porseman Telegram group who was arrested on 7 April in Saqqez, Kurdistan Province, has been held in detention for three weeks without the right to access legal counsel or family visits. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that after his arrest, Hamdi was taken to the Ministry of Intelligence detention centre in Sanandaj, Kurdistan...