Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Pourya Mennati and Shoja Mennati, two Kurdish Yarsani brothers and political prisoners from Sahneh in Kermanshah Province, have been transferred to an undisclosed location after carrying out their daily reporting in Cheshmeh-ye Sefid prison in Kermanshah in recent days. A source familiar with the matter spoke to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) and said: "Pourya and Shoja Mennati, who were arrested in November 2022...

Iran's Supreme Court has overturned the death sentence of Mohammad Khezrnezhad, a Kurdish Sunni cleric arrested during the Women, Life, Freedom anti-government uprising. State news agencies reported that the sentence had been commuted to imprisonment, but the exact length of the sentence remains unknown to Khezrnezhad and his legal team. On 11 June, Nasser Atbati, the head of the West Azerbaijan Province Judiciary, told state media:...

Reza Babrnezhad, the brother of Mehdi Babrnezhad, a protester killed during the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising in Quchan, Razavi Khorasan Province, has been arrested for the second time in recent weeks. Security forces arrested Babrnezhad in Quchan on 6 June, and took him to the city's prison, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. This follows his temporary release on bail from the same prison...

Branch 41 of Iran's Supreme Court, presided over by Judge Razini, upheld the death sentence and 16-year prison term for Kurdish Sunni cleric Mohammad Khezrnezhad in early April, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. On 30 December 2023, after 14 months of detention, Branch Three of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province, presided over by Judge Reza Najafzadeh, sentenced Khezrnezhad...

Hazhir Mahmoudpour, a young kolbar from Javanrud, Kermanshah Province, was fatally shot by border guards in the border areas of Nowsud, Kermanshah Province, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. On the evening of 4 June, a group of kolbars were targeted by border guards' gunfire, leaving Mahmoudpour seriously injured. He was taken to Ghods Hospital in Paveh, Kermanshah Province, but died this morning despite...