Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Awat Karami, a Kurdish environmental activist from the village of Negel in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, has been arrested by security forces and taken to an undisclosed location. The Kurdistan

The fate of Parvin (Akhtar) Rasegh Ghezelbash, a 33-year-old Kurdish woman from Maku, West Azerbaijan Province, remains unknown 45 days after her arrest by forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard

Mehdi (Sikan) Roshani, a Kurdish political prisoner from Malekshahi in Ilam Province, is facing charges of “enmity against God” (moharebeh) and “spreading corruption on earth” (efsad-e

Rahim Shilani and Azad Rasouli-Fard, two Kurdish men from Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province, have each been sentenced to two years in prison by Branch Two of Bukan Criminal Court for “buying and

Rahim Hassanpour, a Kurdish citizen from Nalas in Sardasht County, West Azerbaijan Province, has been arrested by forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Intelligence

The fate of Zahra Pir-Dehghan, a 32-year-old Kurdish woman from Chaldoran, West Azerbaijan Province, remains unknown 45 days after her arrest. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned

Iranian border guards have shot dead Mohammad Towhid-Panah, a 25-year-old kolbar from Saqqez, Kurdistan Province, in the Hangeh-ye Zhal border area of Baneh, Kurdistan Province. The Kurdistan

Kajal Mobaraki and her husband, Jamal Ahmadzadeh, two Kurdish researchers at Orumiyeh University of Medical Sciences, remain detained in Orumiyeh Central Prison more than six weeks after their arrest

Three kolbars, Goran Khedri, Hassan Mostafazadeh and Bakhtiyar Amini, have been severely injured in recent days by Iranian border guards’ gunfire and a landmine explosion in the Hangeh-ye Zhal

Security forces have arrested at least seven Kurdish citizens – Jamal Rostami, Saman Khosravi, Hawre Parvazeh, Arya Maroufi, Zanyar Asvar, Peshtiwan Tatar, and Saro Roshani – in Marivan and