Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Officials at the al-Mahdi base of Iran's Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan province, have told the family of the detained member of the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK), Edris Feqhi, that they were unaware of his situation. On 28 September, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) published a report saying the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) had...

Several political, civil and human rights activists in Kurdistan issued a statement and criticised the recent mass arrests in Kurdish cities in Iran, calling for an end to such practices by the government. Following the new wave of arrests of Kurdish civilians and activists, which was launched on 11 November, security forces have arrested at least 31 people in Baneh, Saqqez, Marivan and Sanandaj in...

Iranian Ministry of Intelligence in Kurdistan province has detained at least 11 more people in Baneh, Saqqez, and Marivan as part of the recent arrest wave of Kurdish civilians and activists. Including these detentions, in the last few days alone, the intelligence ministry arrested at least 28 Kurdish Baneh, Saqqez, and Marivan. Security forces took the detainees to the intelligence ministry's central detention facility in Sanandaj,...

In the past few weeks, following changes in the administration of the General Directorate of the Ministry of Intelligence in Kurdistan province, a new wave of arrests, summons, and threats against Kurdish activists and civilians has begun in various cities of the province. Sources of the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) said offices of the intelligence ministry in Baneh, Saqqez, Sanandaj, Marivan, Dehgolan, and Kamyaran...

In a letter addressed to the United Nations member states today, 31 Iranian and international human rights organisations, including Amnesty International, have asked for support to the draft resolution on human rights in Iran, which will be put to the vote next week at the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly in New York. They urged the member states to "take a principled stance...

Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence in Baneh, Kurdistan province, has summoned admins of several Telegram channels and threatened them over publishing news on the murder of a Kurdish kolbar by border forces. On 4 November, Iranian border guards opened fire on a group of kolbars and killed a young man named Mohammad Khodaei in the border areas near the Kani Seif village of Baneh. Following the incident,...

The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has prepared this report to draw the attention of international human rights organisations to the situation of secret detention centres of two security agencies, the Ministry of Intelligence and the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), in Iranian Kurdistan. The report briefly addresses the location of these secret detention centres and the detention conditions, interrogation, and...

Information received by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) suggests that Edris Feqhi, a member of the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK), previously reported to have lost his life in a clash, is alive. Reportedly, Feqhi is being held in the detention centre of the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan province. Previous reports had stated that the PJAK...

Officers in Greater Tehran Central Penitentiary have beaten to death a 23-year-old civilian named Amir Hossein Hatami on 22 September after he spent about ten days in the prison. The families and relatives of the civilian, who comes from Ilam province, gathered in front of the prison on 25 September, demanding that the prison authorities be held accountable for Hatami’s death. However, so far, the authorities...