A worker from Sanandaj lost his life due to severe injuries at workplace.
Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that a worker called Vahid Mouloodi was injured and lost his life during work with rollers at the Zagros cartoon factory on Friday, June 29.
He was married with two children.
Seyvan Yaghoubi, a prisoner sentenced to death on charges of “premeditated murder”, was executed in Sanandaj Central Prison on 16 January. Yaghoubi, a 36-year-old...
Read MoreThis report examines instances of human rights violations against Kurdish civilians in Iran during 2024. As in previous years, these violations stem from factors...
Read MoreA group of Kurdish women activists staged a protest today in front of the governor’s office in Kurdistan Province to denounce the confirmation of...
Read MoreSecurity forces have arrested at least 13 Kurdish civilians and activists in recent days in Kermanshah, Sarpol-e Zahab, Sanandaj, Divandarreh, Bukan and Mahabad, three...
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A group of retired employees of the Telecommunication Company of Iran took to the streets in Kermanshah, Kermanshah Province, today to demonstrate their dissatisfaction with their living conditions and to press for the resolution of various issues. The protests were not limited to Kermanshah, as similar demonstrations by retired telecom workers took place simultaneously in several cities across the country. The main demands of the pensioners...
A 30-year-old worker from Bukan named Rezgar Hajizadeh died in an explosion at an oil refinery in the city of Duhok in the Kurdistan Region yesterday, a reliable source told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). According to unofficial statistics, thousands of Kurdish civilians from different cities of Iranian Kurdistan are employed by the industrial, construction, agricultural and climatic sectors of Kurdistan Region.
Labour activist Bakhtiar Rahimi has been sentenced by the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Marivan to two years in prison on charges of "acting against national security” during the past few days. The activist was arrested on December 27 at his workplace in the Marivan Electricity Department but he was released from Sanandaj prison on December 21 on a bail of 100 million Tomans. Amnesty International...
Haydar Ghorbani, a Kurdish labour activist and a member of the Free Trade Union of Iran who was detained by security forces at his family home in Tehran on June 7, 2020, is still being detained at Ward 209 of Evin Prison. During this period, the activist has had only two short telephone calls with his family. Despite his family's enquiries made to the court...
New charges may be brought against the two Kurdish labour activists Mahmoud Salehi and Osman Ismaili following an indictment filed by the Saqqez Intelligence Office, Kurdistan province. "I was summoned to the Branch 5 of the Saqqez Prosecutor's Office on May 4, by receiving a text message. I referred to this branch after receiving the message. After studying the case, the judge told me that...