Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Five Kurdish cultural activists of Kermanshah attempting to stage a demonstration in protest to killing Kolbars were arrested by Iranian Disciplinary Forces and later transferred to the Intelligence detention centre of Kermanshah IRGC. According to the information obtained by KHRN, on Thursday, September 07, five activists- who had attempted to Rally in protest to the Killing of Kurdish Kolbars- in Kermanshah’s Koudak Park were arrested...

Over the past few months since being released from a 17-day detention, Farzaneh Jalali (Kurdish civil activist) she has been repeatedly summoned by the News Office of the Intelligence Ministry in Kermanshah via telephone calls and threatened her to consent to cooperation with this organisation. According to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network, the above-mentioned Kurdish civil activist has been summoned for interrogations four times...

During the past 9 days, officers of Iranian Disciplinary Force (NAJA) have killed a Kurdish citizen and injured four others on the false pretext of smuggling in Kermanshah and Ravansar. "On the morning of July 9, a Relief Unit under Command of Iranian Disciplinary Force in Kermanshah Chased a vehicle (Peugeot 405) belonging to a Kasibkar (tradesman) from Kamyaran at the entrance to the city...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network has been informed that On Wednesday, May 27, 2017, coincided with the execution of “Hojjat Allah Tadro" famous athletes of Eslamabad-e Gharb, two other prisoners, charged with "murder and armed robbery”, were executed in Kermanshah. An informed source told that The Iranian regime in a mass execution hanged several prisoners on the verge of the holy month of Ramadan. The identity...

During the last few days, websites close to the Gilan-e Gharb Revolutionary Guards reported the arrests and dismantling of a virtual counter-revolution team. But on Sunday, the prosecutor of the city, has denied the news of the arrest of the activists in social networks. A local source told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network(KHRN), on Wednesday 4 May, seven Cyberspace activists of telegram named Javad Akbari, Meghdad...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) - Last night on May 14, A 28 year old shepherd from nomad was wounded in his leg and arm, near the Shirazi bridge in Qasr-e Shirin in a mine explosion. The explosion was so terrific that has been heard by the entire city of Qasr-e Shirin. Over the past years, this border area has been the location of nomadic...

On 24 April, two Yarsan’s brothers immolated themselves by fire and both have lost their lives due to severe injuries. A source close to Fozoni’s family reports Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that on 24 April Mahdi, the younger brother who was unemployed and recently suffering from severe depression went to Sarab Qamar (in Kermanshah Province, Iran) immolated himself by the fire. He left a...

Religious extremists have continued to attack solo female artists in Kermanshah as the head of Qom Seminary Teachers Society (QSTS) has been demanding more restraints on "such unlawful acts” in a public letter to local governor.   Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) reported that on 29 January of this year at the conference of of Iran’s Architectural History, the Dayrak Khatoon’s music group performed a short piece of...

Iranian security forces arrested Kurdish civil and Kurdish women's right Farzaneh Jalali on 23 February in Kermanshah (Also known in Kurdish as Kermashan) and transferred her to an unknown location. According to Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) sources, Jalali was contacted by the local notary office that asked her to go to their office, and the Iranian security forces arrested her when she arrived to that...