Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): An increasing number of people with coronavirus in different cities of Iran have raised concerns about the health of prisoners. Although the Judiciary has issued a new rule with regard to granting furlough to prisoners on February 24, KHRN's investigation has revealed that not even a single Kurdish political prisoner has been included in this new rule. In recent days,...

Kurdish political inmates detained in the prisons of Orumiyeh, Khoy, Tabriz, and Kashmar published a statement and warned about "ethnic cleansing" in northern Syria in condemnation of the Turkish military's incursion into the north and east of Syria, known as Rojava. "The Kurds and other ethnic-religious minorities in Rojava, north and east of Syria have formed a democratic system in recent years, based on which they are cohabiting....

Kurdish Human Rights Network (KHRN): Sixteen Kurdish political prisoners in Iran's prisons went on a three days hunger strike in solidarity with Kurdish political prisoners in Turkey who have been on hunger strike for the past several weeks. According to information obtained by KHRN, Zainab Jalalian in Khoy Prison, Shakir Bagi in Kashmar Prison, Yousef Kakhemi and Ali Ahmad Soleiman in the Central Prison of...

Ten detained Iranian Kurdish activists are under pressure to make false confessions, with influential imams and officials demanding their immediate execution. Recent changes to the administrators and security apparatus of Iran’s Kurdestan province and other Kurdish populated regions are the main factors behind the alarming security measures used to crack down on Kurdish activists. The arrests were made following militarisation of Kurdish cities, towns and villages in Iran, where Kurdish...

A group of Kurdish political prisoners in prisons in Orumiyeh, Khoy, Tabriz and Kashmar published a statement in which they declared their solidarity with Leyla Guven, the detained co-chair of the Democratic Society Party in Turkey, and 91 other political prisoners in Turkish prisons. They have called for the deployment of international inspectors and the Committee for the Prevention of Torture to the prison of...

Zeynab Jalalian, a Kurdish political prisoner sentenced to life imprisonment, was once again deprived of weekly visits with her family by the Ministry of Intelligence. Meanwhile, Khoy Prison authorities still deny her access to the necessary medical care. "On Monday, December 24, Khoy Prison officials informed her that she would be deprived of weekly visits with her family until further notice as instructed by the...

During the past month, women imprisoned at Khoy Prison have been transferred to the prison meeting hall, where they are kept in unfavourable conditions without access to a bed, breaks in the prison yard or weekly visit, on the pretext of carrying out repairs. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that, in early October, prison authorities have transferred 40 female prisoners to the...

The “Week in brief” by Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) is a weekly review of the most important human rights news and developments from and about Iran’s Kurdish areas. Iranian Kurdish woman to serve six months in jail for anti-state propaganda Iranian Kurdish activist Runak Aghayi has been taken to Mahabad prison to serve her six-month jail sentence, which was approved by the Oroumiyeh Court...

The “Week in brief” by Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) is a weekly review of the most important human rights news and developments from and about Iran’s Kurdish areas. Iran continues crackdown on Kurdish Afrin solidarity rallies Iranian security forces have continued to arrest protesters who had attended rallies that condemned Turkish attacks on the Kurdish Afrin region in northwestern Syria. Two Kurds in Bukan were arrested...