Kurdistan Human Rights Network

The second round of teachers’ sit-in, which began on November 13 across Iran including various cities and villages of Kurdistan, still continues despite the pressures and threats of Iranian security forces. Several Kurdish teachers participating in this sit-in have told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that the majority of schools in various cities and villages of Kurdistan have participated in this sit-in. This sit-in, which...

Since 2008, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have destroyed a large part of Shaho and Kosalan areas known as protected areas by building military bases in the highlands of Shaho and Koshelan mountains in addition to carrying out massive military operations on the pretext of fighting the forces of Kurdish parties. The Protected areas of Shaho and Kosalan with an area of 57,236...

Following the systematic killing of Kolbars and tradesmen in Kurdistan border, four people were killed and seven people were wounded by the shooting of the Iranian border guards over the last three weeks, Moreover, a Kolbar has suffered from spinal cord injury by a mine blast while and another Kolbar has been frozen in the border areas of Orumiyeh as a result of frostbite. According...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) - On Oct 8, 2018, a first-year primary school boy died due to the fall of the worn-out School walls at the Garmash village in Sanandaj. This student has been identified as Donya Veisi, 7 years old. This news has been confirmed by the Director General of Education in Kurdistan Province. "we have repeatedly informed the authorities that our provincial...

Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC) bombarded a large area of Shaho mountain ranges in Ghale Pir Khedr, which Led to widespread fires in Shahu. Several villagers of Shahu mountain ranges have told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that the IRGC forces, with massive military convoys transferred to IRGC bases in the Shaho Mountain during the past several weeks, severley bombarded Ghale Pir Khedr in the...

Following a call in social networks for a nationwide strike in protest to the poor economic situation and inflation, a large part of the markets in several cities (including Sanandaj, Kermanshah, Ilam, Baneh, Saqqez, etc) had closed their shops. Different sources of Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) have confirming the strike in various cities of Kurdistan while stated that the businessmen and marketers have been...

The Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corp, in coordination with the Ministry of Intelligence of the Islamic Republic of Iran, has turned the Kurdish cities such as Sanandaj, Kamyaran, Shaho, Paweh, Mariwan and Sarwabad into a military garrison through dispatching massive military convoys from neighbouring provinces during the recent weeks. Findings of Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) indicate that, following a massive strike in the bazaar of...

On September 26,2018, the Kurdistan Provincial Governorate published a confidential announcement titled "Solidarity and Integrity against Terrorism" and asked all governmental institutions and authorities in Sanandaj to utilize all the governmental facilities and close Sanandaj market on the morning of Wednesday, September 26 2018 while asking all the guilds and merchants of this city to gather in the city's mosque in protest against Ahwaz...

The verdict of two Kurdish citizens, members of the People's Protection Units (known as YPG in Kurdish) who had previously been sentenced to 11 years of imprisonment, was equally confirmed by the Orumiyeh Court of Appeals. The verdict was officially served by Branch 1 of Orumiyeh Court of of Appeals on these two Kurdish citizens called Rahim Mahmoudi Azar and Mostafa Ghaderzeibanon on Sept...