Kurdistan Human Rights Network

A group of 14 human rights organisations has issued a joint statement condemning the recent widespread wave of arrests in the Ahwaz Region (Khuzestan). The statement calls on the United Nations and the global human rights community to demand the immediate release of the detainees and to hold the Iranian authorities accountable for ongoing rights violations, including the suppression of freedom of expression, peaceful assembly...

One of the eight workers wounded at the Khorshid Zivar Station in Ahwaz on Monday night February 12 died of injuries in the hospital due to the explosion of gas cylinders. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that on Monday night, February 12, eight workers from Marivan called Adnan Saeedi, Zanyar Dardan, Atta Darashi, Abdul Rahman Karimi, Mohammad Yarosufi and two brothers Muhammad...