Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Prison officers in Iran's western Ilam prison have severely tortured a prisoner named Shahram Mohammad-Beigi and transferred him to quarantine on 16 February. The prisoner has gone on a hunger strike on the morning of 17 February to protest against the torture. Reportedly, prison officials did not allow Mohammad-Beigi's family to visit him on 16 February. In the evening of the same day, the prisoner again requested...

The body of an Iranian Kurdish political activist named Ahmad Bigham has been found dead at his house in Erbil, Kurdistan Region of Iraq, on 1 January. Bigham's relatives consider his death "suspicious" due to the signs of torture on his body. Erbil police have not yet made an official statement on the matter. The autopsy results will be announced in the next 20 days. In an...

A court official in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan province, confirmed the detention of Edris Feqhi, a member of the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) after the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) reported that he was alive and held by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). On 28 September, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) published a report saying it had obtained information that Edris Feqhi, previously...

Officers in Greater Tehran Central Penitentiary have beaten to death a 23-year-old civilian named Amir Hossein Hatami on 22 September after he spent about ten days in the prison. The families and relatives of the civilian, who comes from Ilam province, gathered in front of the prison on 25 September, demanding that the prison authorities be held accountable for Hatami’s death. However, so far, the authorities...

A Kurdish civilian named Rahman Ahmadian has lost his life in the detention centre of the Intelligence and Public Security Police (PAVA) in Orumiyeh. Ahmadian, who comes from the Sir Heydarlu village of Orumiyeh, was arrested on 12 July along with five other residents of the village. A relative of Ahmadian told the KHRN that security police contacted his family on 18 July and said he...

Iranian border regiment has tortured and severely beaten five Kurdish kolbars with sticks and buttstocks near Issa Gulik village of Chaldoran in the border areas of West Azerbaijan province on the morning of 19 July. A source in Chaldoran told the KHRN that the border regiment of Saqiz outpost under the command of a person named Sadeghzadeh stopped kolbars Jamal Hassanpour, Baran Hassanpour, Hossein Firouzi,...

A 27-year-old prisoner named Nasser Karimi has lost his life in Bukan Prison on 2 June due to being denied medical treatment after he was tortured, sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). Karimi was arrested by the agents of the Criminal Investigation Department in Bukan on 30 May and was taken the next day to the quarantine ward of Bukan Prison. After being tortured...

Prisoner Amir Rezaei who lost his consciousness as a result of torture by Orumiyeh prison officers, has died in the prison infirmary last night, on 17 May. A source confirmed the news to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) and said: “On Sunday, 16 May, Amir Rezaei was taken to quarantine ward along with several other prisoners due to a fight that took place between...

On Tuesday, August 11, the Iranian border guards in Nawsoud, Kermanshah province, tortured a middle-aged Kurdish Border Porter –known as Kolbar- Reza Abdollahi during his temporary detention, a local source told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). The Kolbar has suffered serious head injuries from a gunshot wound to the head. He is from the village of "Tavgozi" in the city of Salas Babajani in Kermanshah province....