Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish activists Amjad Geryakhiz and Ghaneh Khateri were sent to Sanandaj Central Prison on 7 July to begin serving sentences issued by the Islamic Revolutionary Court. Labour rights activist Geryakhiz was sentenced by Branch One of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, to six months in prison on charges of “propaganda against the state” and “inciting shopkeepers to strike”. The court had also sentenced...

Nasser Zomorrodi, a 38-year-old man from Ilam, Ilam Province, was arrested on 4 July after being summoned to the Ministry of Intelligence and transferred to a detention facility operated by the agency in the city. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Zomorrodi appeared before Branch 7 of Ilam’s Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office on 7 July, where he was formally charged with...

Iranian border forces today shot and killed a 23-year-old kolbar, Khaled Mohammadi, in the border areas of Baneh, Kurdistan Province. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the incident occurred in the early hours of the day when a group of kolbars were fired upon at close range and without prior warning in the Shabedin border area of Baneh. Mohammadi, who was from Baneh,...

Several days after the arrest of Kurdish civil rights activist Malak Faraj-Beygi in Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province, there is still no information about her whereabouts or condition. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Faraj-Beygi was arrested without a warrant on 1 July during a raid on her family home by around 20 Ministry of Intelligence agents. The agents also damaged doors and windows...

Branch One of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province, has sentenced five Kurdish men – Ali (Soran) Ghassemi, Pezhman Soltani, Kaveh Salehi, Rizgar Beygzadeh Baba-Miri, and Teyfour Salimi Baba-Miri – to a total of 11 death penalties, lengthy prison sentences, and financial penalties for their involvement in the anti-government Women, Life, Freedom protests in Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province. Eight other defendants have...