Kurdistan Human Rights Network

The Ministry of Intelligence has arrested two Kurdish men in Saqqez and Bukan and taken them to undisclosed locations, as part of a broader wave of detentions targeting Kurdish citizens in recent weeks. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Yousef Ghorbani was detained in Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province, on 13 July. His current whereabouts remain unknown, and he has been denied access...

Sasan Chamanara, a Kurdish artist and civil rights activist, has been arrested once again by plainclothes agents of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Intelligence Organisation in Ilam, Ilam Province, and taken to an undisclosed location, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. The arrest took place on 16 July while Chamanara was on his way to meet his lawyer. The artist had recently...

Iranian border forces have shot and killed Payam Ahmadi, a young kolbar, in the Hanjiran border region of Marivan, Kurdistan Province. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that on 15 July, a group of kolbars were fired upon without warning and at close range by Iranian border guards. Ahmadi, who was among them, was killed instantly. Due to the intensity of the gunfire and...

Iranian authorities executed prisoner Kianoush Khosravi Siyah-Bidi for murder-related charges at Kermanshah Central Prison on 15 July, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. He was arrested about four years ago in Bisotun, Kermanshah Province, and was sentenced to death after being found guilty of “premeditated murder”, a crime punishable by qisas (retribution in kind), which gives the victim’s family the right to retaliate...

Security forces have arrested four Kurdish men without warrants in Bukan, Piranshahr, Sanandaj and Bojnurd in recent days. The detainees - Hamed Shami, Sabah Aminian, Foad Mohammadi and Araz Salehi - were transferred to undisclosed locations following their arrests, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. On 10 July, agents from the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) arrested Shami during a...