Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Farid Enayati, a Kurdish activist and one of the detainees of the anti-government Women, Life, Freedom uprising, is currently in the 35th day of a hunger strike in the Ministry of Intelligence detention centre in Kermanshah, Kermanshah Province, commonly referred to as the Meydan-e Naft (Naft Square) facility. Enayati’s continued denial of contact with his family and access to legal counsel has raised serious concerns...

Kurdish political prisoner Verisheh Moradi ended her hunger strike today after 20 days, following appeals from activists, local and international organisations and fellow inmates in the women's ward of Evin prison, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Moradi, a member of the East Kurdistan Free Women Society (KJAR), began her strike against the death penalty in Iran on 10 October to coincide with...

A group of civil rights activists has issued a statement in support of Kurdish political prisoner Verisheh Moradi, who is on the 16th day of an indefinite hunger strike, and called on her to end her hunger strike.  In the statement, the activists declared their intention to go on hunger strike on 26 October in solidarity with Moradi and asked her to end her strike...

The health of Kurdish political prisoner Verisheh Moradi has deteriorated after 15 days of an indefinite hunger strike in protest against the death penalty in Iran. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Moradi, a member of the East Kurdistan Free Women Society (KJAR), has lost seven kilos since she began her hunger strike on 10 October, coinciding with the World Day Against...

Kurdish political prisoner Verisheh Moradi has entered the 12th day of her indefinite hunger strike protesting the use of death sentences in Iran. A member of the East Kurdistan Free Women Society (KJAR), Moradi is currently being held in Tehran's Evin Prison, facing charges of "armed insurrection” (baghi). Moradi, who began her hunger strike on 10 October to coincide with World Day against the Death Penalty,...

Prisoners Hadi Rostami, Reza Ramazani and Salah Karimi have gone on hunger strike to protest their transfer to solitary confinement cells in Orumiyeh Central Prison. The prisoners, from Ilam in Ilam Province and Bukan in West Azerbaijan Province, have also been denied contact with their families, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Rostami, who faces a sentence of amputation, was placed in solitary confinement...

Kurdish political prisoner Verisheh Moradi ended her hunger strike on 16 May after being returned to the women's ward of Evin Prison following a three-day detention in Ward 209, a section controlled by the Ministry of Intelligence. Moradi began her hunger strike on 15 May in protest at her transfer. Pakhshan Azizi, a Kurdish women's rights activist and fellow inmate, also concluded her hunger strike...

Verisheh Moradi, a member of the East Kurdistan Free Women Society (KJAR), and Pakhshan Azizi, a Kurdish activist and former political prisoner, have gone on hunger strike in Evin Prison after Moradi was transferred to Ward 209 of the Ministry of Intelligence within the prison on the orders of Judge Salavati. Moradi, who has been imprisoned since 1 August 2023, was transferred from the Women's...

Retired Kurdish teacher and civil rights activist Salman Olfati has been on a hunger strike since 24 April in protest at his detention by the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Kermanshah, Kermanshah Province. Olfati, 60, was arrested on 12 April by the Intelligence Organisation of the IRGC in Gilan-e Gharb, Kermanshah Province, and taken to the military-security organisation's detention facility...