Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish political prisoner Nayeb Askari has begun a hunger strike by sewing his lips in protest at being denied family visits and prison leave. Askari, who has been serving a 15-year sentence at

Zeynab Jalalian, Iran's longest-serving and only female political prisoner serving a life sentence, is nearing her 19th year in detention amid renewed concerns that officials at Yazd Central Prison

Kurdish political prisoner Zeynab Jalalian, who is serving a life sentence, has been returned to Yazd Prison only a day after undergoing fibroid embolisation surgery, despite her deteriorating

Bafrin Maroufi, a 43-year-old Kurdish political prisoner from Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province, has been released from Orumiyeh Central Prison after serving her sentence. The Kurdistan Human Rights

Kurdish political prisoner Abdolaziz Gol-Mohammadi has been recently released from Orumiyeh Central Prison after serving more than four years and four months of a 10-year sentence. His release came

Ashkan Fahim, a Kurdish writer and cultural activist from Mahabad, West Azerbaijan Province, who has been held in Mahabad Prison since October 2023, is being denied medical treatment despite

Motalleb Ahmadian, a Kurdish political prisoner serving a 30-year sentence, is in a critical health condition after consistently being denied access to life-saving medication at the Greater Tehran

The Supreme Court has rejected the second appeal for a retrial of Hatem Ozdemir, a Kurdish political prisoner with Turkish citizenship, and upheld his death sentence. With this latest rejection,

Kurdish political prisoner Verisheh Moradi (Wirishe Moradi), who is on death row, is being denied access to vital medical care despite suffering from serious health conditions, including a herniated

Motalleb Ahmadian, a 42-year-old Kurdish political prisoner serving the 15th year of a 30-year sentence in Tehran’s Evin Prison, went on a hunger strike on 5 May, protesting the Tehran