Kurdistan Human Rights Network

As the unprecedented conflict between Israel and the Islamic Republic of Iran enters its 11th day, reports from cities across Iranian Kurdistan reveal a growing crackdown on Kurdish civilians and activists, amid heavy security measures. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its paramilitary Basij forces have set up checkpoints at the entry and exit points...

Security forces have arrested nine Kurdish civilians in Mahabad and surrounding villages in West Azerbaijan Province in recent days, with no information disclosed about their whereabouts, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. On 19 June, Pouria Nasiri, a law student at Islamic Azad University of Mahabad with a previous record of arrest, was arrested without a warrant on one of the city’s streets. On...

Iranian security forces arrested ten Kurdish civilians in Piranshahr, West Azerbaijan province, on 18 January, transferring them to an undisclosed location. The names of the detained civilians are Mobin Hosseinzadeh, Fakhraddin Omidfar, Ghader Omidfar, Vafa Rasouli-Azar, Taha Rasoulian, Ahmad Abdollahpour, Shaho Abdollahpour, Mohsen Ghaderi, Sina Dashmir and Ghader Mohammadpour. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that dozens of security officers raided the family homes of...

The security forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran have detained dozens of Kurdish civilians and activists during the ongoing public protests in the past few days in the provinces of Kurdistan, West Azerbaijan, Kermanshah and Ilam. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has so far been able to confirm and record the arrest of 57 people over the past five days in the cities...

Iranian security forces have arrested two brothers named Ramin Rishi and Rebin Rishi in Baneh, Kurdistan province, at their workplace on 9 April. They took the brothers to an undisclosed location. Security forces refused to show an arrest warrant while detaining the two Kurdish civilians.

Iranian security forces have detained at least five civilians, including a child younger than 18 years of age, in the Karkhaneh-ye Qand village of Piranshahr, in Iran's northwestern West Azerbaijan province, on 3 April. The civilians were transferred to the detention centre of the Ministry of Intelligence in Piranshahr. The identities of these detainees are Parisa Sepahi, 17 years old from Mahabad in West Azerbaijan province;...

Kurdish civilian Golaleh Moradi, who had gone on a hunger strike in the prison of Orumiyeh in Iran’s northwestern province of West Azerbaijan to protest against the uncertainty in her case, ended her strike on 16 February. Moradi, who has been in pre-trial detention for the past ten months, went on a hunger strike on 14 February. She ended her hunger strike on the third day...

Kurdish civilian Golaleh Moradi has gone on a hunger strike in the prison of Orumiyeh, in Iran's northwestern province of West Azerbaijan, on 14 February. Moradi, who has been in pre-trial detention for the past ten months, has begun her strike to protest against the uncertainty in her case. On 14 February, she delivered a letter to prison authorities, announcing her indefinite hunger strike. For the past...

Iranian security forces have detained today three Kurdish civilians in Naqadeh, West Azerbaijan province. The civilians named Chko Ghalandari, Hossein Khaliani, and Ahad Mowloudi have been taken to an undisclosed location after being detained. Security forces also searched their houses after arresting them. Earlier, on 19 December, security forces also arrested two other civilians named Farzin Abdollahzadeh and Sarhang Alizadeh, from the Kuik village of Naqadeh. So far,...