Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Investigations carried out by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) show that various human rights violations have taken place in Iranian Kurdistan in May 2021. In addition to these violations, the KHRN has also collected information on the difficulties Iranian Kurdish asylum seekers and workers face in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Following are the information collected by the statistics and documentation centre of the...

Over 200 Detainees Transferred to Sanandaj, Kermanshah Prisons  Over 200 detainees from the cities Javanrud, Sare pol Zahab, Kermanshah, Marivan and Saqqez have been transferred than to the central prisons of Sanandaj and Dizelabad in Kermanshah, various sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). As per the sources, Dizelabad, Kermanshah and Sanandaj prisons already lacking sufficient facilities, and the transfer of detainees arrested during recent protests...

According to statistics compiled by Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), there has been an intense security crackdown in Kurdistan since July. At least 22 Kurdish civilians and activists have been arrested by forces of the Intelligence Service and Intelligence Organization of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Marivan, Kamyaran, Sanandaj, Divandareh, Tehran and Sare-pole-zahab so far. Only one of these detainees, Amjad Seifi from...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): The Ministry of Intelligence of Iran has warned people against holding celebrations on the eve of the Newroz( Nowruz) in various cities and villages in Kurdistan by summoning or calling a number of Kurdish activists. Several Kurdish activists, summoned and interrogated by the Intelligence Ministry Office in various cities of Kurdistan, have told KHRN about the pressure and threats of...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Families of recently arrested activists of Sanandaj, Kamyaran and Marivan held a protest gathering in front of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) building in Sanandaj on Saturday morning February 24 and called for the immediate release of these people. “This gathering was led by a group of women from the families of the detainees. The crowd demanded the authorities...

Ten detained Iranian Kurdish activists are under pressure to make false confessions, with influential imams and officials demanding their immediate execution. Recent changes to the administrators and security apparatus of Iran’s Kurdestan province and other Kurdish populated regions are the main factors behind the alarming security measures used to crack down on Kurdish activists. The arrests were made following militarisation of Kurdish cities, towns and villages in Iran, where Kurdish...

Farhad Mohammadi, a lawyer and secretary of the National Unity Party in Kurdistan, was arrested by security forces after being summoned to the Ministry of Intelligence office in Sanandaj and transferred to the Intelligence Detention Centre in Sanandaj. A reliable source in Sanandaj told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that Farhad Mohammadi, lawyer and secretary of the National Unity Party in Kurdistan, was arrested after...

The security institutions have increased the pressures on civil activists in Diwandareh during the past few weeks. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that, following the new wave of pressures on civil activists in Diwandareh, two other civil activists, Amir Mohammad khani and Hiwa Qoreishi have been telephone summoned and threatened by Diwandareh intelligence Bureau in addition to the two teachers, Omid...

Since the victory of the Islamic Republic of Iran's Revolution, Kurdistan has always witnessed massive civil protests for various reasons. Recent protests concerned the execution of political prisoners, support for the referendum on the independence of the Iraqi Kurdistan, Iran's attack on the headquarters of democratic parties in the Kurdish region, the high rate of inflation and education reformation. According to Article 27 of the Constitution...