Kurdistan Human Rights Network

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...

Kurdish political prisoner Ghader Mohammadzadeh has ended his 39-day-long hunger strike in Yazd Prison on 8 September after authorities promised to follow up on his demands. Mohammadzadeh went on a hunger strike on 31 July to protest against the Mahabad Public Prosecutor’s refusal to grant him temporary leave. A member of Ghader Mohammadzadeh's family spoke to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). He said: “In the last...

Investigations carried out by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) show that many Kurdish civilians and activists from Iran have become victims of human rights violations in August 2021. The followings are the detailed information collected by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) statistics and documentation centre regarding these violations. Executions In August, Iran executed at least seven Kurdish civilians in prisons in Salmas, Orumiyeh, Kermanshah, Harsin,...

Investigations carried out by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) show that many Kurdish civilians from Iran have been victims of human rights violations in the past 30 days. Followings are the information collected by the statistics and documentation centre of the KHRN in regards to these violations: Kolbars In the past 30 days, military forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran killed at least two kolbars...

The Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (KDPI) issued a statement on 8 August 2021 and said Mousa Babakhani, a member of the party's central committee, was assassinated in Erbil, Kurdistan Region of Iraq. It blamed the Islamic Republic of Iran for the assassination of its senior member. Mousa Babakhani, born in 1981 in Bilavar, Kermanshah province, joined the KDPI in 1999. He was based at...

Iran has executed a prisoner named Afshar Minaei this morning in Dizel Abad Prison in Kermanshah. A court had sentenced Minaei to the death penalty in a “retribution in kind” (qesas) punishment on charges of “premeditated murder”. Security forces had arrested this resident of the Shamshir village of Paveh, Kermanshah province, in 2016 over “premeditated murder”.

A military convoy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) forces comprised of local people, in cooperation with the IRGC’s Saberin Unit, have yesterday besieged and bombarded orchards in the areas near Sure Tu and Dezavan villages of Sarvabad, Kurdistan province, under the pretext of the presence of a team of a Kurdish opposition party. Reportedly, several people whose identities are currently unknown were killed...

Investigations carried out by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) show that various human rights violations have taken place in Iranian Kurdistan in May 2021. In addition to these violations, the KHRN has also collected information on the difficulties Iranian Kurdish asylum seekers and workers face in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Following are the information collected by the statistics and documentation centre of the...

The Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corp, in coordination with the Ministry of Intelligence of the Islamic Republic of Iran, has turned the Kurdish cities such as Sanandaj, Kamyaran, Shaho, Paweh, Mariwan and Sarwabad into a military garrison through dispatching massive military convoys from neighbouring provinces during the recent weeks. Findings of Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) indicate that, following a massive strike in the bazaar of...