Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Nashmil Ghoytasi from Mahabad was sentenced to one-year of discretionary imprisonment by branch one of Orumiyeh Military Court on charges of acting against national security. She was arrested earlier in April and released on bail a month later. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that Nashmil Ghoytasi, wife of the death row Kurdish political prisoner, Arsalan Khodkam, was arrested by Islamic Revolutionary Guards...

Omid Shahmohammadi, a teacher from Diwandareh and a member of Teachers 'Association, who was arrested after the second round of teachers’ sit-in in Iran on Monday 12 November 2018, still remains under interrogation at Intelligence detention centre of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Sanandaj. A reliable source has told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that, despite the fact that the security of the Diwandareh...

Five environmental activists, called Arman Ghafouri, Sahar Kazemi, Kaveh Babamoradi,Varia Khosravi and Shawgar Golabi who were arrested by security forces in the cities of Sanandaj and Marivan, are still detained by the Ministry of Intelligence and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) but their fate is unknown. An environmental activist, in Sanandaj, who wished to stay anonymous for security reasons, has told Kurdistan Human Rights...

Iranian security forces have detained three more Kurdish civilians in the Iranian Kurdish cities of Saqqez, Oshnavieh (Shno in Kurdish) and Sanandaj over the past few days. Meanwhile, officers of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have questioned a number of Kurdish civilians and civil society activists in several Kurdish cities. Iranian security forces in Saqqez arrested Kurdish civilian Sediq Rahman Zadeh and one of his...

Since 2008, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have destroyed a large part of Shaho and Kosalan areas known as protected areas by building military bases in the highlands of Shaho and Koshelan mountains in addition to carrying out massive military operations on the pretext of fighting the forces of Kurdish parties. The Protected areas of Shaho and Kosalan with an area of 57,236...

Only a few days after the Pomegranate Festival in Hawraman (Oraman) was criticised by Imam of Paveh Friday Prayer and websites affiliated with the conservatives, this festival was cancelled in Biangan region of the Paveh city due to the pressures of the security agencies. In this regard, a resident of the Biangan of Paveh told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that the pomegranate festival...

A Kurdish citizen was killed during the conflict between the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) forces and Peshmerga of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (PDKI) near the city of Paveh. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that, on Monday, Oct 12, 2018, IRGC forces surrounded the Bimiri promenade in Paveh on the pretext of facing a team of Peshmergah of (PDKI) and...

The Supreme Court (Branch 47) approved the death sentence for Hedayat Abdollahpour, a prisoner detained at Orumiyeh Central Prison. The court also equally approved the long prison sentence for six other people who were arrested along with Abdollahpour in a conflict at Qaresoghl village in June 2016 and later released on bail. In a conversation with the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), Hossein Ahmad Niazi...

Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC) bombarded a large area of Shaho mountain ranges in Ghale Pir Khedr, which Led to widespread fires in Shahu. Several villagers of Shahu mountain ranges have told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that the IRGC forces, with massive military convoys transferred to IRGC bases in the Shaho Mountain during the past several weeks, severley bombarded Ghale Pir Khedr in the...