Kurdistan Human Rights Network

In the past few days, Justice Orumiyeh (also known in Kurdish as Urmiye), was rejected the request for a new trial provided by lawyers of six kurdish political prisoners. An informed source told Kurdistan Human Rights Network, the Supreme Court based in Qom, reviewed and sentenced the case of six kurdish political prisoners “Kamal Ahmadnejad”, “Halmat Abdollahi ”, “Soleyman kori”, “Milad Abdi”, “Saeed Seyai” and...

At least six Kurdish political prisoners in Iran's Orumiyeh and Tabriz prisons were on hunger strike to show solidarity with Kurdish political prisoners in neighbouring Turkey. The prisoners in Iran's Orumiyeh and Tabriz went on strike on 10 April and ended their strike on 14 April. Kurdish political prisoners Saman Nesim, Kemal Remezan, Ehmed Temuyi, Ibrahim Isapour, Yusif Kake Memi in Orumiyeh ( AKA Urmiye)  prison...

Joint NGO Letter in support of 2016 UNGA Resolution on human rights in Iran Your Excellency: We, the undersigned human rights organizations, welcome the decision of the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly’s Third Committee to pass Resolution A/C.3/71/L.25 on the promotion and protection of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran. The resolution sends a vital message to all governments and...

Mostafa Ali Ahmad, a Kurdish political prisoner from Kobane (in Syrian Kurdistan region also known as Rojava), was transferred on 23 November to a detention centre reserved for foreigners at the central prison of Orumiyeh in Iran, where he served a jail sentence of 11 years and 6 months. Sources who spoke to Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) confirmed that he was transferred from...

After a two-year-and-a-half silence, the Iranian judicial authorities and central prison of Kermanshah have disclosed information on the fate of a Kurdish political prisoner that the Iranian security forces had arrested 30 months ago. A reliable source told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that "on 1 June 2014, Saywan Rahimi, a former political prisoner who previously served a prison sentence, was ambushed by...

The prosecutor office of Iran’s Takestan once again summoned Yarsani activist Siavash Koliayee to the office on 21 October on the request of the intelligence agency that tries to prosecute the activist in a new case, a source told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). “The authorities at the prosecutor office told Koliayee that the intelligence office of Ghazvin had recorded his telephone conversations and...

By Issa Bazyar, a specialist in mine clearance and unexploded ordnances. The Islamic Republic of Iran has been trying to clear itself from responsibility of the increase of deadly mine explosions that keeps claiming lives of innocent civilians in the country’s Kurdistan region. In the latest of such incidents a mine blast stolen the life of an innocent child in the Kurdish region, which exposed the...

Iranian troops of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) have intensely shelled the Kurdish Shaho Mountain and other areas in Kermanshah province, Kamyaran and some other villages and neighborhoods over the past few days, a local source told Kurdistan Human-Rights Network (KHRN). The troops bombarding those areas had been deployed in the area just recently, according to the KHRN source. A local eyewitness also said that...

March 16, 2016 ...