Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Iranian security forces kidnapped three 16-year-old children named Zanyar Asadi, Soren Asaadi and Mardin Ghaderi in Kamyaran and Paveh on 6 December. Security forces kidnapped Asadi in one of the streets of Kamyaran, Kurdistan province, as the Police in charge of Supervision over Public Facilities and Locations simultaneously raided his family home. Meanwhile, a source in Paveh, Kermanshah province, told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN)...

A 24-year-old Kurdish man named Sepehr Aazami who was shot by the Islamic Republic of Iran's military-security forces on 3 November, passed away due to the severity of his injuries in Karaj, northern Iran, on 6 December. On 3 November, the government forces shot Aazami from a close range at the commemoration ceremony of the 40th day of the government killing of a young woman...

At least 120 truck drivers in Paveh, Kermanshah province, have stopped working since 5 December and have joined the nationwide general strikes by truck drivers across Iran. In the past few days, the Public Relations of the Road Maintenance and Transportation Department of Paveh threatened and pressured the truck drivers to force them to end the strike. Reportedly, they sent private text messages, or public messages...

The judicial authorities dealing with the murder case of Zhina Mahsa Amini have not taken any action regarding the requests of the lawyers of the Amini family. An informed source told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that despite the lawyers' objection to the forensic report and the request for the formation of a forensic medical board in which a number of trusted doctors introduced...

In recent days, the Islamic Revolutionary and the Criminal Courts of the Islamic Republic of Iran sentenced at least six Kurdish civilians who were arrested during the nationwide public protests to imprisonment, flogging and social exclusion. Masoud Kamyab – Sonqor, Kermanshah Province The Islamic Revolutionary Court of Kermanshah sentenced a civil rights activist named Masoud Kamyab to one year of imprisonment, one year of a ban...

Behrouz Chamanara, former head of the Kurdistan Studies Institute and assistant professor of the Department of Kurdish Language and Literature at Kurdistan University, was arrested in Sanandaj on 25 November. Forces of the Ministry of Intelligence kidnapped Chamanara on his way to his house in Sanandaj. So far, there is no information about his condition and whereabouts. The professor, who had recently been under intense pressure from...

A Kurdish rapper and singer named Saman Yasin (Seydi), who is held in Tehran's Evin Prison on charges of "enmity against God" (moharebeh), has been subjected to severe physical and mental torture to make a confession on TV. The tortures the artist was subjected to include being kept in a very cold place for three successive days, severe beatings and being thrown from a height. On...

17:00 Local Time On 23 November, the Islamic Republic of Iran's security forces arrested a Kurdish former political prisoner named Dler Nasri in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province and took him to an undisclosed location. Reportedly, Nasri was arrested without a court order at his shop. 16:00 Local Time On 23 November, the Islamic Republic of Iran's security forces arrested a civilian named Mostafa Ghanipour in Piranshahr, West Azerbaijan province...

The military-security forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran have killed at least 104 Kurdish civilians, including 11 children, since the beginning of the nationwide uprising of the Iranian people after the government's murder of Zhina Mahsa Amini. Of the 104 civilians, 41 were killed in West Azerbaijan province (13 in Mahabad, 12 in Bukan, eight in Piranshahr, four in Orumiyeh, three in Oshnavieh, one...