Kurdistan Human Rights Network

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...

Kurdish Human Rights Network (KHRN): Kaveh Babamoradi- environmental activist- and Zanyar Zamiran- former deputy of the Kurdistan branch of the National Unity Party- were released on bail. According to KHRN, Zanyar Zamiran- who was transferred to Sanandaj Central Prison after two and a half months of interrogation at the Ministry of Intelligence Detention Centre in Sanandaj- was temporarily released on a bail of 500 million...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network )KHRN): New charges have been filed against the Kurdish political prisoner, Kamran Darwishi, at Branch 1 of Public Prosecutor's Office in Orumiyeh where the prisoner was also present. The two new charges of disrupting public order and blasphemy were explained to the prisoner. According to the information obtained by KHRN, these new charges were brought forward following new meaures for putting...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Following the celebration of Newroz (Nowruz) in various cities and villages in Kurdistan, several Kurdish civilians were summoned and arrested by the Intelligent Office. According to the information obtained by KHRN, the Newroz ceremony- which was supposed to be held in the city of Malekshahi in Ilam province- was cancelled without any reason due to the involvement of security institutions....

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Branch 4 of the Sanandaj Court of Appeal has reduced Sahar Kazemi's sentence from five years of imprisonment - issued by branch 1 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj headed by Judge Saeedi- to 20 months in prison on charges of acting against national security. According to the information obtained by KHRN, this environmental activist, who is currently being...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): A 26-year-old Kolbar, Jabar Mahmoudi, was injured by direct shootings of the border forces. Meanwhile, another Kolbar- Aref Odaak from the village of Zhivar of Saravabad- passed away due to the cardiac arrest at the Nosoud border inside the Iraqi Kurdistan. According to data collected by KHRN, a Kolbar was killed and seven others were wounded by direct shootings of Iranian...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Kamran Jafari, a Kurdish political prisoner detained at the Orumiyeh Central Prison, was released after serving his three years imprisonment sentence. The political prisoner was arrested in the city of Orumiyeh in November 2016 but he was released on bail after a month. He was later sentenced to five years in prison on charges of being a member of a...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): A 29-year-old Kolbar, Shaker Pourkhaled from Dizaj Mirghoor village of Orumiyeh, died of frostbite at the village of Darman Abad in Sardasht on March 18. According to a Kolbar in Orumiyeh, a number of Kurdish citizens living in the border villages of Orumiyeh such as Oshnavyeh, Piranshahr and Sardasht have turned into Kolbari over the past few years due to...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Kurdish political prisoner, Ghader Mohammad Zadeh who has been in prison for the past 14 years, was summoned to the manager's office of Orumiyeh Central Prison yesterday and Exiled to Yazd Prison. The exile of this political prisoner who has been on hunger strike since March 02 in protest to being transferred to the Safe Ward (formerly known as Quarantine)...