Torture Archives - KHRN

April 23, 2024

Kurdish political prisoner denied medical care despite torture injuries

Kurdish political prisoner Keyvan Rashozadeh continues to be denied medical treatment for injuries sustained as a result of torture by prison authorities, as he enters the seventh day of his hunger

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March 4, 2024

Orumiyeh prison officials step up torture, pressure on prisoners

The authorities in Orumiyeh Central Prison have recently increased pressure and torture on prisoners after more than 800 prisoners signed an open letter calling for the removal of Peyman Khanzadeh,

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February 26, 2024

Kurdish political prisoner takes own life due to torture in Orumiyeh

Kurdish political prisoner Shahin Gallehdar took his own life today due to the pressure and torture by the Ministry of Intelligence, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has

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October 16, 2023

Fate of eight Kurdish detainees remain unknown five months after arrest

More than five months have passed since the arrest of eight Kurdish civilians in Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province, and Baneh, Kurdistan Province, raising concerns about their well-being and the lack

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July 10, 2023

Ministry of Intelligence tortures two Kurdish civilians to death in Orumiyeh

The detained Kurdish civilians Musa Esmaeili and Peyman Galvani have been tortured to death over the past two days in the Ministry of Intelligence detention centre in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan

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December 16, 2022

Tortured Kurdish journalist taken to hospital in Iran’s Sanandaj

The Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) took the detained reporter of Kurdpress News Agency in Qorveh named Ziba Omidifar to the Kowsar Hospital in Sanandaj,

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November 26, 2022

Tehran: Kurdish singer severely tortured, forced to make confessions

A Kurdish rapper and singer named Saman Yasin (Seydi), who is held in Tehran's Evin Prison on charges of "enmity against God" (moharebeh), has been subjected to severe physical and mental torture to

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April 13, 2022

Tehran: Kurdish young man ‘tortured to death’ by Iranian police

A young Kurdish man arrested by Iranian police on "drug-related" charges in Tehran on 7 April, has lost his life suspiciously in a police detention centre. The family of the 25-year-old Milad

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April 7, 2022

Aban Tribunal: Human rights groups warn against Iran’s torture of witnesses

15 human rights organisations, including Amnesty International, Frontline Defenders, Article 19, Together against the Death Penalty (EPCM), Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) and 10 national NGOs,

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