Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Following the blockade of the unofficial border crossings of Kurdistan, a large part of the businessmen and marketers of Javanrood, Marivan and Saqqez went on strike by closing their shops. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that on Tuesday, April 04, a group of businessmen and marketers in Javanrood gathered in front of the governor's building in protest to the blockade of border...

Over the past few days, two Citizens in Nawsoud and Javanroud in addition to a civil rights activist in Mariwan arrested and transferred to an unknown location. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) was informed that at noon on Tuesday, Jan 9, 2018, a civil rights activist called Edris Sharifi (a member of the Ronan Scientific and Cultural Association and Labor Committee) was arrested in his...

On Wednesday, Dec 27, 2017, a group of laborers of Marivan Municipality held a rally in protest to non-payment of Salaries in front of the city's municipality building. “More than two hundred and fifty Laborers from the municipality of Marivan, who had been kept quiet for months with the promise of the municipality's officials paying a salary of nine months, had to hold the protest...

A Civil Activist from Mariwan, who was previously arrested after being summoned by the Mariwan Intelligence Headquarters, was released from Mariwan Prison on bail. “On Monday, November 06, Weria Delangiz (Kurdish activist) who was arrested on Tuesday, September 4, after being summoned to Mariwan Intelligence Office, was released on a bail of 40 million Tomans from Mariwan Prison,” An informed source told Kurdistan Human Rights...

Sharif Bajaur, an environmentalist from Merivan, began to ride a bike from Mariwan to Tehran to promote his message in support of “Kolbars and Reza Shahabi, a political prisoner in hunger strike”. According to reports received by Kurdistan Human Rights Network, on Monday, September 11, the concerned environmental activist has published a message about this symbolic move and goals. In his message, he believes that non-violence...

A Kurdish Kolber (Border Couriers) from Mariwan stepped on a landmine that was left from the Iran-Iraq war in this area. According to the information received by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network, a Kurdish Kolber, Anoushirvan Rezaei from Hilzawa Village of Mariwan wounded in a landmine explosion in the Darwaran, a border region of Mariwan, on Saturday, June 17, 2017. He is hospitalised in Mariwan and...

A gathering of solidarity with Kurdish Kolber workers was cancelled in Mariwan because of the presence of huge Iranian police forces. A few days ago in Mariwan, a group of Kurdish activists planned to gather outside the residence of the governor of the city to protest against the never-ending killings of Kurdish Kolber workers by the security forces. But on the day of the planned protest...

Two civilian Kurdish have been severely injured by land mine explosions in villages near the cities of Mariwan and Boukan in the past two weeks according to sources that spoke to Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). "A 23 year old man called Karzan was severely wounded in a land mine explosion in the border village of Sardoosh near Mariwan on 13 November 2016. The mine...

  Locals in the Kurdish city of Mariwan have protested how the Iranian security forces tried to prevent women from participating in a weekly public environmental awareness activity. Riding bicycles as an environmental awareness campaign usually takes place on Thursdays across Iran Women and men of all ages together begun to take part in the campaign’s activities in the Kurdish city of Mariwan to support the full...