Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish prisoners Edris Ali, Azad Shojaei, and Rasoul Ahmad Rasoul were executed this morning in Orumiyeh Central Prison for alleged "espionage and collaboration" with Israel, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. The three men were executed in secret, without being allowed final visits with their families. Ali and Shojaei, from Sardasht in West Azerbaijan Province, and Rasoul, from Qaladiza in the Kurdistan Region of...

The Islamic Revolutionary Court in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province, has sentenced Kurdish civilian Nasser Bekrzadeh to death on charges of “espionage for Israel”, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. The verdicts came within days of similar sentences for three other Kurdish men, Edris Ali, Azad Shojaei and Rasoul Ahmad Rasoul, adding to a recent spate of death sentences handed down in espionage cases. Asghar...

Edris Ali and Azad Shojaei, two Kurdish civilians from Sardasht, West Azerbaijan Province, and Rasoul Ahmad Mohammad, a Kurdish civilian from Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan Region of Iraq, have been sentenced to death by the Second Branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province. The court convicted the three Kurdish men on charges of "espionage for Israel" in connection with the 2020 assassination of...