Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): The political prisoner "Esmat (Mohammad) Salahshour", who was transferred from Orumiyeh Central Prison to the Detention Center of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) on Apr 20, 2019, has been taken back to the Orumiyeh Central Prison after 15 days of interrogation. KHRN has received news that interrogators from the IRGC have been trying to file a new case against...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): On Wednesday evening, Apr 24, 2019 security forces transferred a number of Kurdish environmental activists and Kurdish members of the National Unity Party from the Ministry of Intelligence Detention Centre in Sanandaj to Kamyaran and filmed them for a television documentary. "Following a clash between the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and the gunmen of one of the Kurdish opposition...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): The political prisoner "Esmat (Mohammad) Salahshour" has been deprived of the right to visit and contact with the family after being transferred from Orumiyeh Central Prison to the Ministry of Intelligence Detention Centre in Orumiyeh. This political prisoner, who has been serving his sentence at Orumiyeh Central Prison during the past two years, was transferred to the Ministry of Intelligence...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Two Kurdish Tradesmen were killed by direct shootings of law enforcement forces in Oshnavieh (Shno in Kurdish). A Tradesman from Saqqez passed away due to the cardiac arrest during the chase by police forces. "On Apr 18, 2019, a Kurdish Tradesmen, Afshin Lotfi, was chased by police in the Bijar district of Zanjan, and he ran away until the police...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Ali Yeganeh, a Kurdish political prisoner detained at the Orumiyeh Central Prison, was released after serving four years and nine months in prison. KHRN has been informed that, this Kurdish civilian from Khoy was arrested by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) on August 30, 2014 at the border area of Orumiyeh. He was transferred to the youth ward of...

Kurdish Human Rights Network (KHRN): Kermanshah Security Polices visited the house of Shahriar Tahmasebi’s mother to arrest this Kurdish activist and transfer him to prison to serve his two years imprisonment sentence, but he was not at home. The officers also seized the personal laptop of Tahmasebi when searching the house. Shahriar Tahmasebi and four other cultural activists were arrested by security forces in the...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): A prisoner charged with "rape" was executed at Tabriz Central Prison on Apr 30, 2019. "The 32-year-old man from Maragheh, who charged with "rape" and sentenced to execution two years ago, was held at Tabriz Prison," a reliable source has told KHRN. KHRN has not been able to obtain sufficient information about the details of this case and the ruling so...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Parwaneh Hosseinpanahi, sister of the Kurdish political prisoner known as Ramin Hossein Panahi who was executed in September, has been telephone summoned, interrogated and threatened by the intelligence Office of Sanandaj. According to a family member, Ms. Hossein Panahi was summoned due to her attempts to find out how her brother was buried. Interrogators have threatened her that she did...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): The dead body of a Kolbar was found by the local people after three months at the frontier hights of the village of Bruishkhani of Baneh. "Two shepherds from the village of Brushkhani of Baneh at the border of Hojra Faghihan found a dead body yesterday. The local people have identified the dead person as Abbas Qaderzadeh, who went missing...