Amir-Hossein Rostami Pataghi, a 23-year-old prisoner from the village of Patagh in Sarpol-e Zahab, Kermanshah Province, was executed in Hamadan Central Prison in the early hours of 21 November.
Rostami was arrested about five years ago on drug trafficking charges and subsequently sentenced to death.
The Preliminary Board for Administrative Violations of Employees in Kurdistan Province has sentenced four members of the Kurdistan Teachers’ Trade Association to permanent dismissal,...
Read MoreMoseb Sabzevari, a kolbar from the village of Qeshlaq in the Shaho district of Ravansar, Kermanshah Province, was today critically injured by gunfire from...
Read MoreAbdolaziz Gol-Mohammadi, a Kurdish political prisoner serving a sentence of 10 years and one day in Orumiyeh Central Prison, has begun a hunger strike...
Read MoreMotalleb Ahmadian, a Kurdish political prisoner serving his 15th year in Tehran’s Evin Prison, is facing critical health issues due to severe medical conditions,...
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The Preliminary Board for Administrative Violations of Employees in Kurdistan Province has sentenced four members of the Kurdistan Teachers' Trade Association to permanent dismissal, expulsion and exile, while another activist's expulsion sentence was reduced on appeal. Omid Shah-Mohammadi was sentenced to permanent dismissal from all government jobs, Hiva Ghoreishi and Kaveh Mohammadzadeh were dismissed from their posts, and Parviz Ehsani was sentenced to five years'...
Moseb Sabzevari, a kolbar from the village of Qeshlaq in the Shaho district of Ravansar, Kermanshah Province, was today critically injured by gunfire from Iranian border guards in the border areas of Nowsud, Kermanshah Province. According to information received by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), the incident took place in the early hours of the morning when a group of kolbars working in the...
Abdolaziz Gol-Mohammadi, a Kurdish political prisoner serving a sentence of 10 years and one day in Orumiyeh Central Prison, has begun a hunger strike in protest at the rejection of his request for a suspension of his sentence. On 30 November, Gol-Mohammadi, who is currently being held in the Political and Religious Prison Ward, submitted an official hunger strike notice to the prison authorities after...
Motalleb Ahmadian, a Kurdish political prisoner serving his 15th year in Tehran’s Evin Prison, is facing critical health issues due to severe medical conditions, including diaphragm hernia, spinal canal stenosis, urinary tract infection, and duodenal cancer. Despite recommendations from forensic medical authorities for the suspension of his sentence, Tehran’s Prosecutor, Ali Salehi, has repeatedly denied requests for medical furlough or transfer to external treatment facilities. The...
Omid Hamedi, a Kurdish teacher from Kamyaran, Kurdistan Province, was arrested by the Ministry of Intelligence on 7 December. Hamedi, who teaches at Shahed High School in Kamyaran, was arrested at his workplace without a warrant, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Following his arrest, security forces took Hamedi to his family’s home, where they conducted a search and confiscated several of his personal...