Kurdistan Human Rights Network

A Kurdish military commander from the Komala of the Toilers of Kurdistan was killed in an ambush by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) near the border village of Piran-e Kohneh in Marivan, Kurdistan Province, on 19 September, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned.  Following the ambush, IRGC forces shelled parts of the region's highlands until midday, causing widespread fires.    Environmental activists, including members of...

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has destroyed parts of the protected Shaho Mountain range in the Kermanshah Province by building roads and attempting to establish military bases, local residents and activists say. Residents of the village of Shamshir in Paveh, Kermanshah Province, told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that last week the IRGC sent a convoy of construction equipment and began building roads...

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has extended its military-security exercise in the Quri Qaleh and Piaz Dol highlands of the Shaho Mountains in Kermanshah Province, which began on 17 July, by three days, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. The IRGC also announced artillery shelling in the protected area. Residents of villages near the Shaho Mountains told the KHRN that on 17 July...

Forces from the Hamzeh Seyyed al-Shohada Headquarters of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) besieged the village of Tajandareh in Oshnavieh, West Azerbaijan Province, in the early hours of 9 July, engaging in a clash with a small group of Kurdish opposition party members. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that at least one person was killed in the clash, which lasted several...

For the second day in a row, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has carried out intense shelling, causing extensive environmental damage in the Shaho mountainous region near the villages of Tangivar and Palangan in Kamyaran, Kurdistan Province. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that IRGC forces stationed around the villages of Tangivar and Palangan carried out aggressive shelling on 29 January, causing...

Worries have heightened over the well-being and fate of Edris Feqhi, a member of the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK), who was detained by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) almost 29 months ago. Fatemeh Maghsoudi, Faqhi's mother, expressed her frustration in a video obtained by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), saying that the security forces have not provided clear answers regarding her son's...

Fardin Jafari, a 27-year-old civilian with mental disability, is in a critical condition after being shot in the head by an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) sniper near Aichi cemetery in Saqqez, Kurdistan Province, on the afternoon of 16 September. The shooting took place on the anniversary of the government's killing of Jina Mahsa Amini, a young Kurdish woman who is buried in the Aichi...

Retired Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Colonel Mohammad Mehrdadi, from Mehran in Ilam Province, was shot dead by a senior IRGC commander's guard on 5 September while protesting outside the IRGC command headquarters in Tehran. An informed source who spoke to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) said: "Mohammad Mehrdadi had financial problems and unpaid wages from the IRGC, which led him to travel from...

Sirous Shokri Elyasi, a Kurdish civilian on military service, was shot dead on 24 July at the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) base in the village of Delazi in Salmas, West Azerbaijan province, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. While IRGC officials claimed that Shokri had committed suicide, the Department of Forensic Medicine confirmed that he was shot from a distance. Shokri's family was...