Kurdistan Human Rights Network

The “Week in brief” by Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) is a weekly review of the most important human rights news and developments from and about Iran’s Kurdish areas. Iranian Kurdish political prisoner in court says faced deadly torture Kurdish political Ramin Hossein Panahi attended first court hearing on 15 January at Branch One of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Iran’s Sanandaj headed by Judge...

The “Week in brief” by Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) is a weekly review of the most important human rights news and developments from and about Iran’s Kurdish areas. Injured Iranian Kurdish prisoner ends hunger strike in Sanandaj Iranian Kurdish political prisoner Ramin Hussein Panahi has ended his hunger strike iafter he was allowed to meet his brother and the authorities promising to look into...

Two Kurdish refugee activist arrested by Turkish security forces on Nov 19, 2017, are still at the Risk of deportation to Iran. These refugees were detained at Salim Pasha Camp in Istanbul on charges of cooperation with a Kurdish media in Iraqi Kurdistan. “Shiva and Maria Ghalvazi, two Kurdish refugee activist who had recently introduced themselves to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees...

A political prisoner detained in Ward 12 of Orumiyeh Central Prison was transferred to solitary confinement on the orders of prison authorities for unknown reasons. "On Sunday, October 14, Mustafa Davoodi, a Kurdish political prisoner detained in ward 12 (section dedicated to political prisoners) in Orumiyeh Prison, was transferred to solitary confinement for unknown reasons," an informed source told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). "This political...

A Kurdish journalist from Sanandaj, who was arrested by security forces earlier this week, has been released on bail while another detained journalist has been transferred from the Intelligent Detention Centre of the Saqez to Saqez prison. “Farhad Hadi, a journalist and editor of Dangi Kurdistan Weekly who was arrested on Sunday, Oct 8, 2017, at his workplace by the security forces, was released two...

A 35-year-old Kurdish woman from Saheb has lost her life due to self-immolation. According to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), on Saturday, October 07, 2017, a young woman called “Fermisk Ahmad Zadeh” (Daughter of Rashid) married with two children, ended her life by self-immolation in her house in Saheb area (in Saqez) due to family problems. The suicide rate is very high among the...

A Kurdish citizen of Turkey who had travelled to Orumiyeh to visit his family in May was arrested by security forces and sentenced to five years of Imprisonment by the Revolutionary Court of Orumiyeh on charges of cooperating with one of the Kurdish parties. “In late June, a Kurdish citizen called Rahim Turgut residing in the city of Gever (Bakurê Kurdistanê/Turkish Kurdistan) was arrested by...

Iranian forces continue arresting pro-independence Kurdish demonstrators Iranian intelligence agents and security forces have continued to arrest and interrogate civilian Kurds who had taken part in celebrations after a referendum on Kurdish statehood was held in neighbouring Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan Region. KHRN has obtained names of some of those Iranian Kurds detained and questioned at various detention centres of the Iranian security forces in some of...

Over the past few days, the Border Regiment at the border between Paveh and Nosoud have reportedly banned people from commuting after 9 pm in addition to carrying out military manoeuvres in order to create an atmosphere of fear and terror in the streets of Nosoud. “Following a rigorous verbal conflict between Kolbars and the border guards in the Ghalaga area at Nosoud Border where...