Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Iranian forces have arrested hundreds of protestors across Kurdish cities, in the west of the country, following the death of Mahsa (Zhina) Amini. Amini died on 16 September after she was hospitalized following her arrest and torture by morality police in Tehran. The 22-year-old Kurdish woman was arrested on 13 September for having worn the hijab “inappropriately” and was beaten by the morality police on the...

Iranian forces have killed at least 17 protestors, injured 435 and arrested 570 during the protests rallies held in the past week across the cities of Kurdistan over the killing of Mahsa (Zhina) Amini. Kurdistan, West Azerbaijan, Kermanshah and Ilam provinces, along with other cities and provinces of Iran, were the scene of widespread protests throughout the past week, which initially started in Saqqez, Sanandaj...

Investigations carried out by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) across Iranian Kurdistan show that Iranian forces have killed at least 12 protestors, injured 375 and arrested 530 during the protests rallies held over the killing of the 22-year-old Mahsa (Zhina) Amini. The anti-riot and paramilitary Basij forces killed at least 12 protestors during the protests rallies held in Orumiyeh, Oshnavieh, Piranshahr, Divandarreh, Saqqez, Dehgolan...

Iranian security forces arrested three women's-rights activists by names of Zhina Modarres-Gorji, Avin Rasti and Leila Salehi in the past three days across Iranian Kurdistan. Security forces arrested Modares in Safari Street in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, on 21 September. This activist was repeatedly threatened with arrest by the security institutions recently. The security forces called and went to the bookstore where Modarres-Gorji worked, telling her that if...

After the political parties and the civil society in Kurdistan called for public protests, people in the cities of Saqqez, Sanandaj, Baneh, Bukan, Piranshahr, Oshnavieh, Mahabad, Dehgolan, Divandarreh, Ravansar and Marivan started a general strike by closing down their businesses on 19 September. Simultaneously, people went on the streets in the cities of Kermanshah, Saqqez, Bukan, Mahabad, Divandarreh, Kamyaran, Marivan, Sanandaj, Dehgolan, Qorveh, Takab, Bijar,...

Investigations carried out by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) show that many Kurdish civilians and activists from Iran have become victims of human rights violations in January 2022. The followings are the detailed information collected by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) statistics and documentation centre regarding these violations. Executions In January, Iran executed three prisoners in the cities of Mehran, Eyvan-e Gharb, and Ilam in...

This report addresses the human rights situation in 2021 in relation to the Kurdish people in Iran. As in previous years, the rights of Kurdish people have continued to be violated due to their language, religions, culture, genders, sexual orientations, and class and political affiliations by the Islamic Republic's discriminatory laws and repressive and violent crackdowns by its security, military, judicial, and executive institutions. The...

A man has killed his wife in Surkal village in western Iran's Kermanshah province. The identity of the 43-year-old victim is not yet known. "The killer is a 48-year-old man who had fled after the murder", the Iranian Rokna News agency quoted the Kermanshah police chief as saying. The police chief added that after the killer was arrested by the police, he confessed to killing his...

Iranian security forces have detained today three Kurdish civilians in Naqadeh, West Azerbaijan province. The civilians named Chko Ghalandari, Hossein Khaliani, and Ahad Mowloudi have been taken to an undisclosed location after being detained. Security forces also searched their houses after arresting them. Earlier, on 19 December, security forces also arrested two other civilians named Farzin Abdollahzadeh and Sarhang Alizadeh, from the Kuik village of Naqadeh. So far,...