Kurdistan Human Rights Network

The Supreme Court has overturned the death sentences of five Kurdish citizens - Ali (Soran) Ghassemi, Pezhman Soltani, Kaveh Salehi, Rezgar Beigzadeh Babamiri, and Teyfour Salimi Babamiri - and

Kurdish prisoners Nasser Bekrzadeh and Shahin Vasaf, whose initial death sentences were overturned by the Supreme Court, were resentenced in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province. At a retrial in

Branch Nine of Iran’s Supreme Court has rejected a request for a judicial review in the case of Pakhshan Azizi, a Kurdish political prisoner sentenced to death, raising concerns that her execution

A group of civil, human rights, political and media activists from Kurdistan have issued a statement calling for the immediate annulment of the death sentence imposed on Kurdish political prisoner

Kurdish political prisoner Hamid Hosseinnezhad Heidaranlou has been sentenced to death after being tortured into confessing to involvement in clashes between the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and

The Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence of Hatem Ozdemir, a Kurdish political prisoner with Turkish citizenship, on charges of "enmity against God" (moharebeh), the Kurdistan Human Rights

Additional details have emerged about the case of Pakhsan Azizi, a Kurdish political prisoner who has been sentenced to death and four years in prison by Branch 26 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court

Rauf Sheikh-Maroufi, Kamran Soltani and Mohammad Faraji, three Kurdish civilians arrested by security forces during the Women, Life, Freedom anti-government uprising in Bukan, West Azerbaijan

Pakhshan Azizi, a Kurdish activist who has been detained for almost a year, has been sentenced to death by the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Tehran on charges of "armed insurrection" (baghi) through