Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Fatemeh Mohammad-Panahi, a 17-year-old child bride, was shot dead by her husband and two stepbrothers on 29 September in the village of Marghan in Sardasht, West Azerbaijan Province. Mohammad-Panahi, who had been forced into a child marriage with her cousin, expressed her wish to separate from him just one year after their union, a decision opposed by her family. As a result, the young girl was...

Prisoners Sasan Farzipour and Mohammad Bagher Bazgir were executed on murder-related offences in Parsiloun Prison in Khorramabad, Lorestan Province, on 30 September. The prisoners had been transferred to solitary confinement in Parsiloun Prison several days before their execution. Bazgir, a resident of Khorramabad, was arrested in 2021 on charges of the "premeditated murder" of a cleric and was sentenced to death. Similarly, Farzipour, born in 1992 in...

Border forces near the Hangeh-ye Zhal border area in Baneh, Kurdistan Province, opened fire on a group of kolbars without warning and at close range on 30 September, resulting in the death of a young kolbar, Mohammad Khaledi. The body of the deceased kolbar, from the village of Chichuran in Baneh, was taken to the Salahuddin Ayoubi Hospital in the city. According to statistics compiled by...

Kurdish civil rights activist Hiro Ghadimi faces inadequate conditions and is denied access to necessary medical care in the women's ward of Sanandaj Prison. Ghadimi, who suffers from migraines, high blood pressure, and a herniated disc, has been transferred to solitary confinement in recent days, where she is unable to move due to her medical conditions and experiences ongoing health challenges. Officials at Sanandaj Prison have...

Nayeb Askari, a Kurdish political prisoner facing a death sentence, went on a hunger strike on 28 September in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province, in protest at the Iranian security authorities' continued pressure to issue a second death sentence against him. Following the announcement of his hunger strike, Askari was immediately moved to solitary confinement on the orders of the prison authorities. In June, on the orders...