Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdistan Human Rights Netwrok- After nearly a decade behind bars, prisoner of conscience Zeinab Jalalian has developed intestinal problems, yet the authorities continue to deny her specialist treatment, her father told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). “She is suffering from intestinal issues, but there is no specialist in the prison to help her and her requests to get checked by doctors outside...

Seyed Sami Hosseini and Seyed Jamal Mohammadi, two Kurdish political prisoners in the Central Prison of Qazvin (known as the Choobindar), have been deprived of their right to leave (furlough) in their 10th year of imprisonment while so far “Article 134 of Islamic Penal Code (Aggregation of Fines) have not been implemented in their cases yet. “Seyed Semi Hosseini and Seyed Jamal Mohammadi had been...

Zeynab Jalalian’s lawyer, AmirSalar Dawoodi submitted a petition to Chief Prosecutor and stated that his client has not been taking her medication. According to Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) The lawyer has released a letter in his telegram channel and announced that Kurdish political prisoner Zeynab Jalalian, has been refusing to take her vital medications since march 16, in order to protest the prison administration’s...

After a two-year-and-a-half silence, the Iranian judicial authorities and central prison of Kermanshah have disclosed information on the fate of a Kurdish political prisoner that the Iranian security forces had arrested 30 months ago. A reliable source told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that "on 1 June 2014, Saywan Rahimi, a former political prisoner who previously served a prison sentence, was ambushed by...

Evidence obtained from local sources suggest that the death sentence for Kurdish prisoner Saman Naseem has remained as "mandatory " and that the Orumiyeh Central Prison where he is jailed has not heard anything from Iran’s Supreme Court on annulling the death sentence but instead the prisoner has been put back on trial. The evidence came following news published by several outlets that the...