Kurdistan Human Rights Network

A Kurdish civil rights activist was sentenced in absentia to six months in prison and 20 lashes by the branch 102 of Criminal Court of Marivan on charge of "disturbing public order" for participation in a protest rally against Turkish Army's invasion of the Kurdish-Syrian Afrin city, a source told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) . The Iranian...

A Kurdish civilian was acquitted of the charges by the Revolutionary Court of Marivan, a source confirmed to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). Salem Adwai, the supervisor of the sports hall of the village of Slen in Hawarmana, was summoned and detained a number of times for several hours by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Intelligence Service in Marivan. "The hearing on the charges against 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. 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...

On March 18, 2018, during the football match between Sardar Bukan and Bandar Abbas municipality at Khatam al-Anbiya Stadium in Bukan, one of the football fans entered the football pitch and the audience also shouted slogans against Turkish Attack on Kurds in Afrin. Consequently, the security forces attacked protesters with tear gas and batons. This incident led to the injury of a number of...

Following the protests against the Turkish military attack, security forces have arrested two other Kurdish citizens in Bukan during the past days. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that during the protest rally in a number of cities in Kurdistan against the Turkish military attack on Monday of March 12, 2018, security forces arrested two other Kurdish citizens, called Jafar Amini and Hamid...

On Thursday, March 15, 2018, one of the detainees arrested during the protest rally in condemnation of the Turkish military Attack on Kurds in Afrin in Kamyaran was released. But there is still no information available on the fate of other detainees. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that on March 12, 2018, security forces arrested at least 8 civil activists in Kamyaran...

Following the protest rally against the Turkish military attack, A group of civil activists have been arrested in a number of cities in Kurdistan such as Marivan and Kamyaran. Nine of the detainees have been released on bail but there is no information available on the fate of others. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that on Monday evening of March 12, 2018,...

Yesterday afternoon, on March 12, following the call on social networks on holding a protest rally in condemnation of the Turkish military Attack on Kurds in Afrin and the silence of the international community, several cities witnessed the rally despite the presence of security forces. Several numbers of Civil activists have been arrested by security forces in Marivan and Kamyaran. Various sources in the cities...

Following the massive condemnation of the Turkish Army's attack on the Canton of Afrin by various cultural and civilian figures and institutions in Iran, Hundreds of Adherents of Yarsanism in Iran published an open letter in which they addressed The United Nations and the countries committed to the human rights clause. This open letter called for action against the crimes committed by Turkey and...