Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Nearly 50 days have passed since the beginning of the nationwide uprising of the Iranian people following the murder of Zhina Mahsa Amini by the government. At least 54 Kurdish civilians, including seven minors, have been killed by the military-security forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the provinces of West Azerbaijan, Kurdistan, Kermanshah, Ilam, Qazvin, Alborz and Tehran. These statistics were collected until 6...

The security forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran have detained dozens of Kurdish civilians and activists during the ongoing public protests in the past few days in the provinces of Kurdistan, West Azerbaijan, Kermanshah and Ilam. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has so far been able to confirm and record the arrest of 57 people over the past five days in the cities...

Iranian military-security forces have killed three civilians, including a child, during public protests in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, and Mahabad, West Azerbaijan province. A source in Sanandaj that spoke to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) said that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) forces wounded and detained a young man named Mohammad Lotfollahi on 26 October. He was taken to an undisclosed location in a van...

Iranian military-security forces killed two Kurdish civilians named Motalleb Saeid Peyro and Fereydoun Faraji and injured several others during public protests in Baneh, Kurdistan province, on 27 October. "The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) forces shot the protesters in the streets of the city, as a result of which Motalleb Saeid Peyro and Fereydoun Faraji, 28 years old and from Saqqez, were killed", said a...

Iranian anti-riot forces and the paramilitary Basij forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) killed at least three protesters today in Mahabad, West Azerbaijan province. Today, widespread public protests were held in Mahabad after a large number of people attended the burial ceremony of Esmaeil Mowloudi, 35, a civilian who was killed last night by military-security forces during protests in the city. The anti-riot and...

Protesters and local shops and businesses in Iranian Kurdistan held demonstrations and went on strikes yesterday on the 40th day of the murder of a Kurdish woman named Jina Mahsa Amini by government forces. Many local businesses and shops in Mahabad, Sardasht, Piranshahr, Bukan, Divandarreh, Saqqez, Marivan, Dehgolan, Kamyaran and Javanrud went on widespread strikes and closed their businesses. Also, despite the strict security atmosphere and...

Iranian security forces detained at least eight civilians during the public protests held in Darreh Shahr, Ilam province, in the past few days. The names of the protesters are Hossein Adib, Reza Nazarpour, Payam Rezaei, Peyman Rezaei, Zabi Gholizadeh, Reza Ghassemi, Farzad Asadi and Rasoul Kiani. So far, there is no information about the fate of the detained protesters. On 19 October, a group of civilians held...

Two Kurdish civilians named Ramin Fatehi and Ramin Karami have lost their lives as a result of torture and shooting by Iranian military-security forces in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, and Kermanshah, Kermanshah province, in the past few days. On 21 October, the office of the Ministry of Intelligence in Sanandaj summoned the family of Fatehi, one of the detainees of the recent protests. It informed them...

Iran's anti-riot forces and the paramilitary Basij forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) injured at least 20 protesters on 17 October and security forces detained at least 23 in the past few days in Abdanan, in Iran's western Ilam province. Nationwide protests broke out after a 22-year-old Kurdish woman named Mahsa (Zhina) Amini died on 16 September after she was hospitalized following her...