Kurdistan Human Rights Network

23:00 Local Time On the evening of 24 November, Iranian border forces shot dead a 36-year-old civilian named Jabbar Farghizadeh near the village of Asnavi in Marivan, Kurdistan province. 19:39 Local Time At the same time as the general strike in Javanrud, Kermanshah province, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) continued to deploy military convoys to the city on 24 November. Anti-riot and IRGC vehicles were stationed in...

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) forces shot and killed a 21-year-old man named Rebaz Salehivand with shotgun pellets in Mahabad, West Azerbaijan province, on 22 November. "Yesterday morning, near the village of Haji Mamian in Mahabad, Rebaz Salehivand and one of his friends, whose identity is unknown, were shot by IRGC forces from a distance of a few meters while driving a motorcycle, and...

The security forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran arrested at least 13 Kurdish civilians and activists in the past few days in Abdanan, Mahabad, Sanandaj and Rasht and took them to undisclosed locations. Civilians named Sonia Sharifi, 17, Amir Hossein Mousavi, 16, and Mohammad Ghassemi were arrested in Abdanan, Ilam province. On the evening of 20 November, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) forces raided...

The military-security forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran killed at least 15 civilians in public protests in Iranian Kurdistan from 19 to 21 November. The total number of Kurdish civilians killed in the protests across Iran has reached 98 people. After more than two months since the beginning of the nationwide uprising of the Iranian people against the Islamic Republic of Iran, popular protests continue...

With the military-security forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran killing at least 25 civilians in public protests in Iranian Kurdistan in the last three days, the number of Kurdish civilians killed in the protests across Iran has reached 83. After more than two months since the beginning of the nationwide uprising of the Iranian people against the Islamic Republic of Iran, popular protests continue...

Iranian military-security forces detained at least seven protesters in Muchesh, Kurdistan province, during public protests that took place on the evening of 10 November. The people of Muchesh went to the streets for the first time since the beginning of the country-wide protests against the government's killing of Zhina Mahsa Amini. As the protests broke out, military-security forces started shooting at the protesters and arrested a...

Since the beginning of the country-wide popular protests in Iran, at least seven civilians in Orumiyeh, Piranshahr, Saqqez, Sanandaj and Bijar have suffered irreparable injuries in the eye and loss of sight in one or both eyes as a result of the shooting of anti-riot forces with shotguns. On 17 September, during the burial ceremony of Zhina Mahsa Amini in Saqqez, Kurdistan province, at least...

Iran's Ministry of Intelligence has summoned at least 50 university students in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, since 29 October. "Some of the students who have gone to the office of the intelligence ministry in the past few days have been threatened and pressured after being interrogated for several hours to end the protests and strikes", said a student activist of the Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences. On...

Saman Yasin (Seydi), a Kurdish rapper from Kermanshah and a resident of Tehran, who was arrested by the security forces at his home on 2 October, has been transferred to Tehran's Evin prison in recent weeks. "About two weeks ago, in a brief phone call with his family, Saman said he was transferred from Fashafouyeh Prison [also known as The Greater Tehran Central Penitentiary] to...