Kurdistan Human Rights Network

The explosion of a landmine left over from the Iran-Iraq war in a military base in the Nowsud border area in Kermanshah province has injured Rasoul Rahmani, a member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), on 14 October. The IRGC member was severely injured in the left leg. He was transferred to a medical centre in Kermanshah for treatment. Every year, dozens of civilians in the...

A court official in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan province, confirmed the detention of Edris Feqhi, a member of the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) after the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) reported that he was alive and held by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). On 28 September, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) published a report saying it had obtained information that Edris Feqhi, previously...

A Kurdish civilian named Ahad Najar Chirei has been transferred to Orumiyeh Central Prison after being interrogated in a security detention centre of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan province. On 24 August, the Intelligence Organisation of the IRGC arrested the civilian at his hometown, Delour Darband village of Orumiyeh, and took him to the IRGC detention centre at Razhan base...

Information received by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) suggests that Edris Feqhi, a member of the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK), previously reported to have lost his life in a clash, is alive. Reportedly, Feqhi is being held in the detention centre of the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan province. Previous reports had stated that the PJAK...

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have shelled yesterday the protected forests of Shaho Mountain, between the villages of Deyvaznav and Palangan in Kamyaran, Kurdistan Province, causing a fire in large part of the forest. In an interview with the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), several residents of the region expressed concerns about the continuation of the fire. IRGC forces prevented the people's volunteer forces from...

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has been holding two Kurdish civilians Kaveh Sharifi and Shwan Sheikha in detention since 30 June and refuses to give information regarding their situation to their families. The two Kurdish civilians have been denied visits and telephone calls with their families since their detentions. A source that spoke to the KHRN about the two civilians said: “Shwan Sheikha, a computer...

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...

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has stationed forces in many regions near the villages in Bukan, West Azerbaijan province, after clashes broke out between the IRGC and a Kurdish party near Elmabad village on 24 July. Reportedly, the IRGC has taken tight security measures in the area. Yesterday, the IRGC-affiliated Tasnim News Agency reported that the Hamzeh Seyyed al-Shohada base of the IRGC had said...

Forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have killed a kolbar named Fahmin Rostamzadeh and injured another on 23 June in the Tah Tah mountain pass in Hawraman region in Sarvabad, Kurdistan province. The IRGC forces opened fire on a group of kolbars at 04:00 local time as a result of which the two kolbars were shot, a source in Hawraman told the Kurdistan...