Kurdistan Human Rights Network

“Five citizens from the Kurdish town of Shno (also known in Farsi as Oshnavieh ) were transferred from Orumiyeh Intelligence Agency detention centre to Orumiyeh Central Prison,” a reliable source told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) “Mohamad Royan, Vali Sharifi, Reza Ezat Taj, Faroq Shafahi and Saber Rasoulpour were arrested on 3 April 2016 in Shno by Iranian security forces and they were brought...

The critical health condition of 25-year-old Kurdish political prisoner Afshin Sohrabzadeh has dangerously worsened in Minab prison in southeastern Iran, but the authorities still refuse granting him medical leave and his family is unable pay for his treatment. 'Last week, his health situation worsened suddenly and his blood pressure dangerously lowered. He lost consciousness several times and his fellow inmates repeatedly requested urgent medical help...

The Iranian authorities have extended detention of several Kurdish activists, five of whom come from the Saqez area, another from Kamyaran and the other activist is a renowned former political prisoner from Orumiyeh prison. The detained activists are being held at security detention centres run by the Iranian Intelligence Ministry and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the cities of Sanandaj and Oroumiyeh....

“Hossain Kamangar, a former Kurdish political prisoner, was arrested again last week by Iranian security forces in Kamyaran and nobody has since heard of him or on his whereabouts,” a reliable source told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). “The security forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran went to his house in Kamyaran to rearrest him and they also confiscated some of his personal belongings....

Amnesty International UK: Zeynab Jalalian is in her early thirties and is set to spend the rest of her life in Iran’s Kermanshah prison. She was convicted in 2010 of membership of an armed Kurdish opposition group, following alleged torture during her interrogation and a trial lasting a few minutes with no lawyer present. She lost her freedom, now she may lose her sight too. Zeynab...

A Kurdish political prisoner who originally comes from Kobane (Syrian Kurdistan), Ramazan Ahmad, has written a letter signed by 22 other prisoners detailing human rights violation for which they hold responsible officials of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Local human rights activists told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that Ahmad had been transferred to Iran’s Rajaee Shahr Prison in Karaj district despite an urgent need...

Kurdish political prisoner Ramezan Ahmad Kamal emerged from coma on 2 January but he remains unconscious. The medical staff have remained silent about the reasons of his coma, a reliable source told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). This prisoner was hospitalized in the emergency department Room 1 of the Emam Khomeyni hospital in Tehran. Previous report : Kurdish political prisoner Ramezan Ahmad Kamal taken into coma in...