Kurdistan Human Rights Network

The Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corp, in coordination with the Ministry of Intelligence of the Islamic Republic of Iran, has turned the Kurdish cities such as Sanandaj, Kamyaran, Shaho, Paweh, Mariwan and Sarwabad into a military garrison through dispatching massive military convoys from neighbouring provinces during the recent weeks. Findings of Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) indicate that, following a massive strike in the bazaar of...

The Supreme Court equally approved the death sentence for Arsalan Khodkam, a prisoner detained at Orumiyeh Central Prison, who had previously been sentenced to death by Branch 1 of the Orumieh Military Court on charges of Moharebeh and espionage for one of the Kurdish opposition parties against the regime. In this regard, an informed source has told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that Arsalan Khodkam...

The verdict of two Kurdish citizens, members of the People's Protection Units (known as YPG in Kurdish) who had previously been sentenced to 11 years of imprisonment, was equally confirmed by the Orumiyeh Court of Appeals. The verdict was officially served by Branch 1 of Orumiyeh Court of of Appeals on these two Kurdish citizens called Rahim Mahmoudi Azar and Mostafa Ghaderzeibanon on Sept...

Kamal Hassan Ramazan, a Death Row political prisoner, was transferred to the Orumiyeh IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps) Detention Centre Unexpectedly. An informed source told Human Rights Network Kurdistan that the IRGC agents had visited the central prison of Orumiyeh on Monday, Aug 13, and transferred Kamal Hassan Ramadan to the Detention Centre of the IRGC under the pretext of interrogations. In such a situation,...

In the past few days, security forces have arrested at least seven Kurdish civil and cultural activists in Kangavar, Kermanshah, and Koohdasht. There is no information available on the fate of several of them. An anonymous source, who did not want to be identified for security reasons, has told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that on July 05, security forces had attacked the houses of...

The Islamic Republic of Guards Corps (IRGC) has banned several ranchers residing in Salmas from animal husbandry in mountain ranges on the pretext of the cooperation of a number of their family members with Kurdish parties, Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that IRGC forces have announced that two Kurdish farmers called Ali Mamdadi and Pezhman Mamedi (residing in the village of Dirak...

Following the conflict between one of the Kurdish parties and Iran’s guards, strict security measures have been taken in these areas and some regions of Kurdistan during the recent days. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that at 22:00 on June 05, 2018, there was an armed conflict between unidentified gunmen and border guards at the “Beweran” border crossing of Sardasht, which resulted...

Over the past several years, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) intelligence interrogators threatened former political prisoners and their families as well as the unemployed youth group to force them into cooperation with this military-security institution. “Orumiyeh intelligence bureau summoned and threatened former political prisoners and their families through two interrogators from the Military Institution in the city and villages around Orumiyeh to pressure them into...

On Wednesday,January 3, during a siege of one of the villages of Piranshahr by the Intelligence Forces and the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRCG), a clash took place between these forces and Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran. As a result of this incident, six members of the Ministry of Intelligence and IRCG were killed. Following the outbreak of the conflict, reports from Hamza Seyyed al-Shohda's...