Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Marivan Governor has forced the organisers of a seminar on the phenomenon of “Kolbars” in Marivan to cancel the seminar without giving any reason. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that Marivan governor has forced the organisers of a seminar focused on the Kolbars phenomenon to cancel the seminar which was scheduled to be held on Nov 15 by the Marivan cultural-artistic...

Five environmental activists, called Arman Ghafouri, Sahar Kazemi, Kaveh Babamoradi,Varia Khosravi and Shawgar Golabi who were arrested by security forces in the cities of Sanandaj and Marivan, are still detained by the Ministry of Intelligence and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) but their fate is unknown. An environmental activist, in Sanandaj, who wished to stay anonymous for security reasons, has told Kurdistan Human Rights...

Over the past two weeks, dozens Kurdish civil and Guild activists in various cities of Kurdistan by security forces who also arrested several people. According to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), security forces have summoned, interrogated and arrested at least 20 Kurdish citizens and activists (both Guild & civil) in several cities (including Sanandaj, Kermanshah, Ilam, Baneh, Saqqez, etc) following the strike on Sept...

Hoshyar Kasraei, a citizen from the village of Nay of Marivan who had been arrested by security forces earlier this year on July 11, 2018, was released from Marivan Prison on a bail of 200 million Tomans. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that this Kurdish citizen was temporarily released from the Marivan prison on bail on Oct 16, 2018 until his trial...

Two Kolbars died and another one was seriously wounded following the explosion of a landmine near the village of Duran (of Marivan Marivan )Today on Tuesday, September 25. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has identified the dead Kolbars as Ali Naderi from Gwantou Village of Divandareh and Abdullah Mohammadzadeh from the village of Tinal of Marivan. Moreover, a kolbar from the Banjeo village of Sanandaj,...

After 37 days in which no information has been received about the fate of Arman Ghafouri and a news release on some Kurdish websites that he was killed in the Sanandaj Intelligence Detention Centre, there is a serious concern about his fate. According to Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), there is still no information available about the fate of Arman Ghafouri, a student at Payam-e-Nour...

Yesterday afternoon, on March 12, following the call on social networks on holding a protest rally in condemnation of the Turkish military Attack on Kurds in Afrin and the silence of the international community, several cities witnessed the rally despite the presence of security forces. Several numbers of Civil activists have been arrested by security forces in Marivan and Kamyaran. Various sources in the cities...

The authorities of Sanandaj Central Prison temporarily halted the execution of a Kurdish death row prisoner on 23 May after his family members and human rights activists held a protest outside the prison. The Kurdish death row prisoner, Hemen Mostafaei, 27, was taken to the prison’s solitary confinement cells in preparation for his execution, but the prison authorities agreed to the demand of his family...

Over the past two weeks, two Kulbars were killed and 25 others were injured when a car and a minibus carrying Kulbars overturned in the border region of Marivan. According to Human Rights Network Kurdistan, On Sunday 24 May, around 15, on the “Band Dezli”road, in the Central District of Sarvabad County, Kurdistan Province, Iran, a car (Peykan), which was carrying Kulbars, have overturned and...