Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Eqbal Shabani and Towfiq Mahmoodi, two Kurdish Labour activists were sentenced to one year of suspended imprisonment for three years and one-year of imprisonment respectively on charges of cooperating with the "Opposition parties”. KHRN has obtained information that Eqbal Shabani’s hearing was held on May 5, 2019 at branch 1 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj, headed by Judge...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Sirwan Ghorbani, an environmental activist and a member of the Central Council of National Unity Party in Kurdistan, was released on a bail of seven hundred million Tomans until his trial on May 12. This activist was arrested on Tuesday, February 12 at 9 AM by security forces in Kamyaran and he was taken to the Ministry of Intelligence Detention...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Fardin Eyvazi, a Kurdish civilian and resident of Tengisar village in Sanandaj, was transferred to Sanandaj Central Prison to endure his five-year imprisonment sentence. Fardin Eyvazi was arrested on March 3, 2018 by the Sanandaj Intelligence Office and later released on bail. He was sentenced to five years in prison at Branch 1 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): There is still no news about the fate of Yaser Amini Azar, the mathematics teacher and religious activists, who was arrested four days ago despite the repeated enquiries of his family about his whereabouts. This teacher was arrested by security forces in Mahabad when he was returning home from school on Wednesday, May 7, 2019. Security agents have stated that...

Kurdish Human Rights Network (KHRN): Hadi Kamangar, an environmental activist and member of the Kurdistan branch of the National Unity Party who was arrested by security forces on January 01, was released on a bail of one billion and seven hundred million Tomans from Sanandaj Central Prison. This environmental activist was transferred to the Sanandaj Central Prison last week from the Ministry of Intelligence Detention...

Kurdish Human Rights Network (KHRN): Following the closure of official Kolbari crossings, increasing inflation and unemployment rates in Kurdistan, more Kurdish citizens have turned into Kolbari. Meanwhile, a large number of kolbars have lost their life due to the direct shootings of Iranian forces, frostbite and falling from mountains. Since mid-April, two Kolbars and two tradesmen have been shot dead by Iranian forces while...

Kurdish Human Rights Network (KHRN): Two environmental activists "Hadi Kamangar and Sirwan Ghorbani" were transferred from the Ministry of Intelligence Detention Centre in Sanandaj to the Central prison of this city during the past few days. Farhad Mohammadi, Hossein Kamangar, Rashed Montazeri, Farzad Hosseini, Issa Fayzi and Jalal Rostami are still held at the Ministry of Intelligence Detention Centre in Sanandaj. “Interrogators have told Farhad...

Kurdish human rights defenders from East Kurdistan / Iran have written a letter to Kumi Naidoo, Secretary-General of Amnesty International. In this letter they express their concern about the violent and degrading treatment of Kurdish and non-Kurdish activists, who were protesting last week in the London office of Amnesty International against the global silence regarding the extensive hunger strike of Kurdish political prisoners in...

Kurdish Human Rights Network (KHRN): Although five months have passed since the transfer of the Kurdish civilian "Shakir Behroozi" residing at Morghoor Region of Orumiyeh from Orumiyeh Central Prison to the detention centre of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in this city, there is still no information available on his fate. "This Kurdish civilian was previously a member of one of the Kurdish opposition...