Kurdistan Human Rights Network

A previous report on the killing of Mahshid Fallahi, a Kurdish trans woman from Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, was inaccurate and is hereby corrected and retracted. The report was published on the

Kurdish political prisoner Motalleb Ahmadian has been returned to Evin Prison after undergoing several surgical operations at a hospital in Tehran. Ahmadian, from Baneh, Kurdistan Province, is

Prisoners Farhang Sheikheh and Morteza Sadeghzadeh have been executed in recent days in prisons in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, and Damghan, Semnan Province. Sheikheh, a 55-year-old citizen from

More than 300 people arrested during the December 2025–January 2026 protests, remain in legal uncertainty in the “security” ward of Kermanshah Central Prison (Dizel Abad Prison), where they are

A 19-year-old woman and mother of two, Jana Sadouei, was killed by her husband in the village of Tarimish in Khoy, West Azerbaijan Province, on 16 May. An informed source said Sadouei had been

Two Kurdish political prisoners, Ashkan Maleki and Mehrdad Mohammadinia, have been secretly executed in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj after being sentenced to death in a rapid and unfair

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 citizens in different regions and

Mojtaba Veysi and Meysam Veysi, two Kurdish Yarsani brothers and cultural activists from Kermanshah, were killed by Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) forces in the village of Ghaleh-Kouhesh in

Arman Marefati, a 30-year-old Kurdish civilian from Saqqez, Kurdistan Province, has been sentenced to death over the charge of “enmity against God” (moharebeh) in connection with the December

Esmaeil Ramazanpour, a 38-year-old resident of Yazd, has been sentenced to death by the city's Islamic Revolutionary Court following his arrest during the December 2025-January 2026 protests, a trial