Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish political prisoner Shahin Gallehdar took his own life today due to the pressure and torture by the Ministry of Intelligence, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Gallehdar, 50, from the village of Haki in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province, was serving a two-year sentence in Orumiyeh Central Prison. The prisoner hanged himself in the political and religious prisoners' ward today after being transferred several...

Zaniar (Matin) Tondro, a 17-year-old student who was shot by Iranian forces during the recent anti-government protests in Piranshahr, West Azerbaijan province, on 27 October 2022, has lost sight of one of his eyes. Hamzeh Tondro, the young man's father, spoke to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) about his son's situation and said: "My son was first wounded on 20 September 2022, on the...

A 17-year-old child named Mobin Feizi, who was severely injured by shotgun pellets that hit his head during the public protests in Kamyaran, Kurdistan province, on 15 November, has lost his ability to move an arm and a leg after undergoing two surgeries. On 15 November, the forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) shot Feyzi in the head with a shotgun in one...

Child offender Arsalan Yassini who was arrested at the age of 17 on the charge of "premeditated murder" and sentenced to "retribution"(execution), was executed at the Orumiyeh Central Prison on August 17. The prisoner was transferred to solitary confinement a day earlier for the enforcement of execution sentence."Arsalan Yassini, born in 1990 in Naqadeh, was arrested and sentenced to death when he was under...

" Two children, Hemen Adwai and Kiomars Adwai from the village of Slen of Hewraman, Kurdistan province, were released from the Ministry of Intelligence Detention Centre in Sanandaj on August 13, a reliable source told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). They were detained by security forces on July 18. On July 18, the two students were arrested in Sarvabad and Marivan cities after being summoned to...