Kurdistan Human Rights Network

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 December 2021. The followings are the detailed information collected by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) statistics and documentation centre regarding these violations. Executions In December, Iran executed six prisoners in the central prisons of the northwestern cities of Sanandaj,...

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 November 2021. The followings are the detailed information collected by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) statistics and documentation centre regarding these violations. Executions On 3 November, Iran executed a prisoner named Manouchehr Kazemi in Ghezel Hesar Prison of Kermanshah. Kazemi,...

Several political, civil and human rights activists in Kurdistan issued a statement and criticised the recent mass arrests in Kurdish cities in Iran, calling for an end to such practices by the government. Following the new wave of arrests of Kurdish civilians and activists, which was launched on 11 November, security forces have arrested at least 31 people in Baneh, Saqqez, Marivan and Sanandaj in...

Iranian intelligence ministry arrested five Kurdish civilians in Sanandaj and its Niyar village in Kurdistan province on 14 November and transferred them to the province's central detention facility in the city. The detentions are a part of the recently launched wave of summons and arrests of Kurdish civilians and activists across the north-western Kurdistan province. The province's General Directorate of the Ministry of Intelligence currently holds...

In the past few weeks, following changes in the administration of the General Directorate of the Ministry of Intelligence in Kurdistan province, a new wave of arrests, summons, and threats against Kurdish activists and civilians has begun in various cities of the province. Sources of the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) said offices of the intelligence ministry in Baneh, Saqqez, Sanandaj, Marivan, Dehgolan, and Kamyaran...

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 October 2021. The followings are the detailed information collected by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) statistics and documentation centre regarding these violations. Executions On 10 October, Iran executed a prisoner named Mohammad Latifi in Dizel Abad Prison of Kermanshah. Latifi,...

The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has prepared this report to draw the attention of international human rights organisations to the situation of secret detention centres of two security agencies, the Ministry of Intelligence and the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), in Iranian Kurdistan. The report briefly addresses the location of these secret detention centres and the detention conditions, interrogation, and...

Fatemeh Karimi (Source: bidarzani.com) On 3 October, a physician at Kowsar Hospital in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, named Iman Navabi, drew attention to a femicide case on his personal Instagram account. In this post, which was removed sometime later from his account due to pressures, he said: “They brought a 22-year-old girl whose father burned 85% of her body with gasoline. And it was because she had...

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 August 2021. The followings are the detailed information collected by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) statistics and documentation centre regarding these violations. Executions In August, Iran executed at least seven Kurdish civilians in prisons in Salmas, Orumiyeh, Kermanshah, Harsin,...