Kurdistan Human Rights Network

A criminal court in Quchan, Razavi Khorasan Province, has sentenced Kurdish citizen Reza Babrnezhad to a total of six years in prison. Babrnezhad, the brother of Mehdi Babrnezhad, who was killed

Kurdish civil rights activist Mohammad Rezaei has been imprisoned in Sanandaj Central Prison to serve a one-year sentence. Rezaei, a member of the Nozhin Socio-Cultural Association from Sanandaj,

Chiman Hosseinzadeh, a Kurdish woman from Bukan who lived in Afghanistan, and her daughter, Sara Yousefi, were killed on 8 May by a local Taliban official who had sought to marry Sara. A source

Three people from a justice-seeking family in Kamyaran, Kurdistan Province, — Kajal Rahmani, Isa Feyzi and Danyal Rahmani — have been arrested by agents of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and

A previous report on the killing of Mahshid Fallahi, a Kurdish trans woman from Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, was inaccurate and is hereby corrected and retracted. The report was published on the

Kurdish political prisoner Motalleb Ahmadian has been returned to Evin Prison after undergoing several surgical operations at a hospital in Tehran. Ahmadian, from Baneh, Kurdistan Province, is

Prisoners Farhang Sheikheh and Morteza Sadeghzadeh have been executed in recent days in prisons in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, and Damghan, Semnan Province. Sheikheh, a 55-year-old citizen from

More than 300 people arrested during the December 2025–January 2026 protests, remain in legal uncertainty in the “security” ward of Kermanshah Central Prison (Dizel Abad Prison), where they are

A 19-year-old woman and mother of two, Jana Sadouei, was killed by her husband in the village of Tarimish in Khoy, West Azerbaijan Province, on 16 May. An informed source said Sadouei had been

Two Kurdish political prisoners, Ashkan Maleki and Mehrdad Mohammadinia, have been secretly executed in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj after being sentenced to death in a rapid and unfair