Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Zeinab Sekaanvand, a prisoner who was arrested and sentenced to death for the murder of her husband when she was just 17 years old, was executed on Tuesday morning (02 October) along with two other prisoners at Orumiyeh Central Prison. This prison sentence was enforced while human rights organisations had repeatedly called for annulment of her death sentence. Zeinab Sekaanvand's brother confirmed the execution of...

Just two days after the execution of three Kurdish political prisoners known as Ramin Hossein Panahi, Loghman and Zanyar Moradi, the death penalty of another political prisoner called Kamal Ahmad Nejad was carried out on early Monday, September 10, at Miandoab Central Prison. Kamal Ahmad Nejad (from the village of Gamishgolli Miandoab in west Azerbaijan) was arrested In fall 2015 along with five other prisoners...

A prisoner sentenced to death, who had been transferred to a solitary confinement cell yesterday, was executed at central prison of Orumiyeh on Monday July 27 at 1 a.m. Kurdish Human Right Network has identified this prisoner as Jahangir Nojavan yesterday. This 28-year-old prisoner from the village of Bibkaran from Mehal Margoor of Orumiyeh was arrested in 2016 along with his wife on charges of distributing...

Eight Sunni Kurdish Citizens, sentenced to death on charges of assistance and assassination in the deadly attacks of June 07 last year, were executed in secret without the knowledge of lawyers and families. An informed source told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that the family and lawyers of eight prisoners called Solomon Mozafari, Ismail Sufi, Rahman Behruz, Seyyed Majid Mortazai, Cyrus Azizi, Ayub Ismaili, Khosrow...

Zanyar Moradi and Ramin Hossein Panahi, two Kurdish political prisoners sentenced to death by the Iranian government, have published an open letter to the public regarding the implementation of the "death penalty" from the history of Constitutionalism to today and stated that various governments regard such penalty as "the most fearsome tool for the elimination of dissents.” In their letter, these two political prisoners who...

Following the confirmation of death penalty for Ramin Hossein Panahi by the Supreme Court, a case has been filed to Branch Four of the Sanandaj Tribunal to enforce the verdict and prison authorities have reported that he would be executed after Ramadan. Hossein Ahmadi Niaz, (Hossein Panahi's lawyer) expressed his concern about the risk of executing his client in an interview with the Kurdistan Human Rights Network...

On Saturday morning March 9, 2018, a prisoner was executed in Khoy Prison, on Rape charge. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has identified the prisoner as Javad Gol Niyat, from Khoy. The prisoner was married with two 8-year-old twin daughters. He was arrested three years ago on charges of rape and sentenced to death.

The identity of another prisoner who has been hanged at Dizel Abad Prison in Kermanshah, on March 04, was revealed by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). Keyvan Rashkhar, a resident of Kermanshah, was arrested five years ago for murdering one of his relatives and sentenced to Death. Local sources have reported the execution of a group of prisoners on this day but only two...

Five prisoners in Mashhad Central Prison and Four prisoners in Taybad Prison were hanged on drug-related charges on Monday, Nov 6, 2017. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has identified the four executed detainees in Mashhad Central Prison as Hassan Yaghoubi from Mashhad, Hassan Haji Abadi from Birjand, Shahreza Hassan Zadeh from Nishabour and Yousef Bagheban from Zahedan. The national media have not announced the news of...