Kurdistan Human Rights Network

The border guards of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the border region of Orumiyeh arrested four shepherds who are Kurdish citizens of Turkey, and transferred them to the central prison of Orumiyeh. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that Orumiyeh border regiment forces detained four teenagers in the Esnadreh region while they were feeding their livetock in the patures. In addition, 900...

Eight Sunni religious citizens, who were sentenced to death on charges of assistance and assassination in the deadly attacks of June 07 last year in Tehran, are at risk of imminent execution after the Supreme Court upheld the original verdict. These individuals were arrested following the deadly attacks of June 07 last year on the Iranian parliament and Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's Mausoleum, in which 17...

A number of Kurdish people arrested after participating in the protest against the sexual harassment of a 12-year-old schoolgirl in Orumiyeh are still being detained at Orumiyeh Central Prison. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been notified that at least 10 people are still in temporary detention at different parts of the Orumiyeh central prison with no information about their fate three months after the...

The “Week in brief” by Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) is a weekly review of the most important human rights news and developments from and about Iran’s Kurdish areas. Injured Iranian Kurdish prisoner ends hunger strike in Sanandaj Iranian Kurdish political prisoner Ramin Hussein Panahi has ended his hunger strike iafter he was allowed to meet his brother and the authorities promising to look into...

A passenger vehicle exploded after colliding with an anti-tank mine left over from the Iran-Iraq war. This incident happened in the public area of Mehran on Monday, December 4 and left three people dead. According to Kurdistan Human Rights Network, the three victims were members of a family identified as: Roghaie Tarai, 50 years old Shah Zainab Taraj, 55 years old And the son of Shah Zainab...

Naji Tamozadeh, a Kurdish political prisoner detained in Orumiyeh Central Prison, was released On Friday morning, December 1st after Serving three and a half years in prison. "Naji Tamozadeh, a member of the village council of Barde Sapi Village, was arrested by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) in Orumiyeh in June 2014 along with 15 other Kurdish people. He was detained for two...

The forces of Security and Intelligence Services of Turkey (MI) beat up the family of a Kurdish asylum seeker activist in Turkey and kidnapped two members of the family and transferred them to a security detention centre. "At 18:30 on Nov 18, 2017, the family of Sheida Rahimi (Kurdish asylum seeker activist) was beaten up while returning to their place of residence in Istanbul by...

Dozens of Kurdish citizens arrested during street celebrations in support of referendum for Kurdistan Independence are still being held in the Detention Centres except for some detainees who were recently released on bail. Reports received by Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) indicate that 7 Baneh citizens -including Fouad Hossein Zadeh, Zanjan Maroufi, Soroush Mohammadi, Danial Ahmadi, Sarou Ahmadi, Hoshyar Shabani and Naseh Khazari- arrested on...

A Kurdish citizen of Turkey who had travelled to Orumiyeh to visit his family in May was arrested by security forces and sentenced to five years of Imprisonment by the Revolutionary Court of Orumiyeh on charges of cooperating with one of the Kurdish parties. “In late June, a Kurdish citizen called Rahim Turgut residing in the city of Gever (Bakurê Kurdistanê/Turkish Kurdistan) was arrested by...