Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Security forces have arrested at least 14 Kurdish activists in the city of Oshnavieh, West Azerbaijan Province, and several surrounding villages in recent days and taken them to an undisclosed location. Those arrested include Yousef Haji Khosh, Rahim Rafati, Fakhraddin Modarresi, Omid Rashid-Pak, Arman Ebrahimi, Salah Ghazi, Hesamoddin Mahmoudi, Mowloud Rousta, Hassan Rasouli, Jafar Rasouli, Mohammad Soltanpour, Ghafour Sheikh-Mohammadi, Hadi Lawa and Ako Ebrahimi. Hadi Lawa,...

Kurdish political prisoner Sakineh Parvaneh went on a one-day symbolic hunger strike today, marking the anniversary of the birth of Ali Mozaffari, a 17-year-old boy killed during the anti-government uprising of Women, Life, Freedom in Quchan, Razavi Khorasan Province. Mozaffari, a Kurdish civilian from Quchan, was shot by anti-riot forces during protests in the city on 22 September 2022. Despite his injuries, he was severely beaten...

Iranian border guards shot dead Jalal Sohrabi, a 40-year-old kolbar, in the Sourkev region of Baneh, Kurdistan Province, on 2 May, marking the second such incident within 24 hours. Sohrabi, a father of two from the village of Tajan in Baneh, was shot when border guards opened fire on a group of kolbars at close range and without warning, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN)...

Prisoner Ali Ashraf-Khani, who had been sentenced to death for "premeditated murder", was executed on 1 May in Dizel Abad Prison in Kermanshah, Kermanshah Province. Ashraf-Khani, a 45-year-old man from Sarpol-e Zahab, Kermanshah Province, was arrested in 2017 and sentenced to death under the Islamic law of qisas, or retribution-in-kind, which gives the victim’s family the right to retaliate.

Two Kurdish civilians from Mahabad, West Azerbaijan Province, were killed in a Turkish military drone strike along the border between Oshnavieh, West Azerbaijan Province, and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq on 28 April while collecting spring herbs, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Rasoul Younesi and Ahmad Heidari lost contact with their families on 27 April after travelling to the border area. The bodies...