Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Arman Vafaei, Afshin Sheikholeslami Vatani and Fardin Karimi were temporarily released today at noon time until the trial on a bail of 500 million Tomans each. These people were accused of cooperation with one of the Kurdish Oppositions during the interrogations. These three Kurdish activists were arrested on March 16 &17,2019, by the security forces and they were held in the...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): The Ministry of Intelligence of Iran has warned people against holding celebrations on the eve of the Newroz( Nowruz) in various cities and villages in Kurdistan by summoning or calling a number of Kurdish activists. Several Kurdish activists, summoned and interrogated by the Intelligence Ministry Office in various cities of Kurdistan, have told KHRN about the pressure and threats of...

Kurdish Human Rights Network (KHRN): Afshin Sheikholeslami Vatani, the environmental activist who was arrested On Sunday, February 17 by security forces in Sanandaj, has been able to make a brief call to his mother. However, his family is still unaware of the reason for his detention and whereabouts. Negar Nasri Moghadam, mother of Afshin Sheikholeslami Vatani, has told KHRN that "I have been commuting to...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Since late February, one Kolbar has been killed and at least six injured after being directly shot by Iranian border guards. During this time, three Kolbars, one of whom was 17 years old, have lost their life due to frost and falling from mountains. On the evening of March 16, 2019, Iranian border guards in the Nawsoud border targeted a...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network(KHRN): Eqbal Shabani, a labour activist and inspector of the Sanandaj Bakery Association, was temporarily released on a bail of 100 million Tomans from Sanandaj Central Prison. He was arrested by security forces on February 18 and transferred to the Ministry of Intelligence Detention Centre in Sanandaj. He was transferred to the quarantine section of the Sanandaj Central Prison after interrogations on...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Jalal Rostami, an environmental activist from Shahini village of Kamyaran and resident of Ramsar in northern Iran, was arrested by security forces at his workplace and transferred to the Ministry of Intelligence Detention Centre in Sanandaj two days later. According to the information obtained by KHRN Jalal Rostami was arrested by a security team at his workplace- a confectionary shop...

Friday 15 March 2019 TO: Member states of the United Nations Human Rights Council Your Excellency, We, the undersigned Iranian and international human rights organisations, urge your government to support resolution A/HRC/40/L.15 renewing the mandate of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, to be tabled during the 40th session of the Human Rights Council. The renewal of this mandate is...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): A 17-year-old Kolbar, Afshar Sayyadi Niaz choked with snow after falling of high mountains in Tata of Paweh. “Afshar Sayyadi Niaz, born in 2002 and a year 9 student at the Shahin high school of Marivan, had turned to kolbari [carrying goods across the border as a Kolbar] since summer due to his father's unemployment and family financial situation”, one...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Kurdish political prisoner, Ghader Mohammad Zadeh who has been in prison for the past 14 years, has gone on hunger strike in protest to being transferred to the Safe Ward (formerly known as Quarantine) of Orumiyeh Central Prison since March 02. Prison authorities have said that they would take his requests into consideration if he breaks his hunger strike. A...