Kurdistan Human Rights Network

A journalist and writer from Northern Khorasan was sentenced to 74 lashes for insulting the Judiciary Branch. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that Alireza Sepahi Laine, the well-known Kurdish journalist and poet from Northern Khorasan, has been sentenced to 74 lashes a few days ago by the branch one of the Kalat Penal Court on the charge of insulting the judiciary officials. The...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (June 6 2017): Over the past few days, all versions of the Kurdish language instruction book (in Kurmanji) has been banned by the Intelligence Service in Khorasan Razavi province, despite having permission from the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance. Alireza Sepahi Laeen, a Kurdish known journalists and authors of Northern Khorasan in an open letter said ban of this book is...