Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Security forces fatally shot two Kurdish Yarsan citizens during protests in Tehran on 8 and 9 January, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Behzad Abbasi Gurajubi, from Qasr-e

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) special forces and the Law Enforcement Force’s special units have maintained a heavy presence in Kermanshah as protests continue across Iran amid an

Kurdish journalist Nazila Maroufian has been denied release on bail and access to proper medical care at Qarchak prison in Tehran although she had suffered two mild heart attacks in the

Imprisoned athlete Parham Parvari was transferred to the Greater Tehran Central Penitentiary with the end of his interrogation at Evin Prison on 4 January. Security forces arrested Parvari, 25,

The fate of the detained Kurdish artists Hossein Safamanesh, Khabat Fadaei and Saman Yassin remains unknown after Iranian security forces arrested them in the past few days over their support of the

A Kurdish civilian identified as Zanyar Mohammadnezhad was arrested on 16 September during a protest rally in front of Kasra Hospital in Tehran after Mahsa (Zhina) Amini passed

Mahsa (Zhina) Amini died on 16 September after she was hospitalized following her arrest and torture by morality police in Tehran.  She passed away at the intensive care unit of Kasra

The Iranian security forces shot dead a Kurdish woman while she was watching the protests on the top of her apartment along with her neighbors. Mina Sheikhi, born in 1960 and a single mother

Labour activist Yashar Darulshafa, who had been sentenced to five and a half years in prison in 2010, was detained by the security forces and taken to an unknown location on 21 November, a source