Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Over the past few days, the Border Regiment at the border between Paveh and Nosoud have reportedly banned people from commuting after 9 pm in addition to carrying out military manoeuvres in order to create an atmosphere of fear and terror in the streets of Nosoud. “Following a rigorous verbal conflict between Kolbars and the border guards in the Ghalaga area at Nosoud Border where...

Following the gathering of Kurdish citizens in various cities of Kurdistan to celebrate and support the referendum for Kurdistan Independence on the evening of Monday, Sept 25, 2017, anti-riot police forces arrested thousands of citizens. There is still no information on the fate of detainees who were then transferred to the Security and Intelligence Police Detention Centres. “A week after the gathering of the Iranian...

Five citizens of Bukan, who were celebrating during the Iraqi Kurdistan Independence referendum, were taken to the Prison from the Detention Centre of Bukan last week. “On Tuesday, Sept 26, 2017, five citizens of Bukan were arrested by the Bukan forces on the charge of playing loud music in their vehicles during the street celebrations in support of the Kurdish independence referendum. They were transferred...

In the past few days, Iranian security forces have arrested several Kurdish citizens in various cities of Kurdistan where there is also high security alert due to the widespread presence of anti-riot and plain-clothes forces. According to the latest reports received by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), following a gathering to support the referendum on the independence of Kurdistan on the evening of Monday,...

An independence referendum for Iraqi Kurdistan was held on 25 September 2017, with the vast majority of votes cast in favour of independence. To celebrate, thousands of Kurds poured into the streets in the Kurdish cities of Iran including Sanandaj, Kamyaran, Ravansar, Javanroud, Mariwan, Baneh, Saghez, Bukan, Baneh, Sardasht, Piranshahr and Mahabad on Monday night despite tight security measures. Some footage also showed Iranian...

Information regarding the fate of detained wounded Iranian Kurdish opposition member Ramin Hossein Panahi and members of his family has remained unknown since he was arrested after armed clashes with Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) in the city of Sanandaj on 23 June. A reliable source spoke to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) about the incident and said that Hamza's Revolutionary Guards in the Shalaman...

Iranian authorities have arrested almost dozens Kurdish citizens in different cities in accusation of membership in Salafi groups following Tehran attacks on 7 June 2017, that killed 17 people. According to information obtained by Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), in the past few days, the intelligence forces arrested a number of family members of attackers and Kurdish civilians, in accusation of collaborating with extremist religious...

An informed source told Human Rights Network Kurdistan that Kurdish Sunni prisoner, Ghasem Abasteh has been on a hunger strike for 11 days in protest to the lack of medical care in Rajai Shahr Prison. According to the source in a past few month, Abasteh has been suffering from a tumour around his tonsils that caused him difficulty in breathing. Due to the lack of medical...

On Wednesday, February 22, 2017 Khalid Ahmadian, a young Kolber has lost his eyes due to direct shooting of the Iranian border guards without a warning shot in Delawaran's Village (in the borders of Piranshahr West Azarbaijan Province in northwest Iran). The doctor did enucleated on one of his eyes and he has lost the sight of the other eyes. Khalid Ahmadian, was born in 1989...