Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Amjad Amini, the father of Jina Mahsa Amini, the posthumous winner of the 2023 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, issued a statement on 9 December revealing that the recent travel ban imposed on him and his family was ordered by the Ministry of Intelligence. On 8 December, security forces at Tehran's Emam Khomeini Airport prevented the Amini family from travelling to France to attend...

Kurdish civilian Fereshteh Hosseini today began serving an eight-month prison sentence in Orumiyeh Central Prison, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. In February, Branch 101 of the Criminal Court of Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province, sentenced Hosseini to eight months in prison on charges of "propaganda against the state", which was later upheld by the West Azerbaijan Province Court of Appeal in November. Hosseini was...

The authorities have today executed Ali Shahinnezhad, Sawlat Tousan and Janali Nadimi in Orumiyeh Central Prison on drug trafficking charges. The three prisoners were transferred to solitary confinement yesterday for execution, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Shahinnezhad was 39 years old from the village of Pesan in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province, Tousan was 40 years old from the village of Qeshlaq-e Tarazlu in...

Prisoners Mojtaba Amiri, Manouchehr Barzgar, Sirous Heidari, Khaled Rouhi and Kamal Elhami have been executed over the past two days in Karaj, Alborz Province, and Sanandaj and Saqqez, Kurdistan Province. Amiri and Barzgar were executed on 5 December on charges of "drug trafficking" after being transferred to solitary confinement for execution with two other prisoners in Karaj Central Prison the day before. The identities and fate...

Kurdish language teacher and former political prisoner Zara Mohammadi was awarded the first Jemal Nebez Prize for her efforts to teach and promote the Kurdish language at a ceremony in Berlin's Schoneberg town hall on 3 December. The event, attended by members of the Kurdish community in Germany and international supporters, was organised by the Jemal Nebez Foundation. The foundation, which was established a year after...