Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish labour rights activist Amjad Geryakhiz has been sentenced to six months in prison and handed a two-year suspended sentence by the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the court convicted Geryakhiz on charges including "propaganda against the state", and formally notified him of the verdict on 7 June. Geryakhiz, from Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, was arrested...

Iran has executed prisoners Karim Hemmati and Hamzeh Yari for drug-related offences at Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj, Alborz Province. The men were transferred to solitary confinement on 7 June in preparation for their executions, which took place at dawn on 9 June. Hemmati, from Harsin in Kermanshah Province, was arrested around five years ago, while Yari, from Nurabad in Lorestan Province, was arrested approximately four...

Iran’s judiciary announced on Tuesday that nine prisoners accused of belonging to the Islamic State (IS) group had been executed. The statement, published by the judiciary-affiliated Mizan News Agency, provided no details on the identities of those executed or the location or circumstances of the executions. It stated only that the individuals had been arrested in February 2018 during clashes with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps...

Four prisoners, Morteza Esmaeilian, Hadi Rostami, Mehdi Shahivand and Mehdi Sharafian, who were sentenced to the amputation of four fingers on their right hands, are at imminent risk of having their sentences carried out in the central prisons of Orumiyeh and Tabriz, in the provinces of West and East Azerbaijan respectively. In late May, Esmaeilian was transferred from Orumiyeh Central Prison to Tabriz Central Prison...

Kurdish prisoner of conscience Iraj Sofi-Mohammad has been on hunger strike since 22 May after being removed from an open prison facility in Mahabad, West Azerbaijan Province. His health is reported to be deteriorating. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Sofi-Mohammad, who is from Mahabad and was serving a 10-year sentence in the city’s open prison, was transferred to the general ward...