Kurdistan Human Rights Network

The “Week in brief” by Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) is a weekly review of the most important human rights news and developments from and about Iran’s Kurdish areas. Iran continues crackdown on Kurdish Afrin solidarity rallies Iranian security forces have continued to arrest protesters who had attended rallies that condemned Turkish attacks on the Kurdish Afrin region in northwestern Syria. Two Kurds in Bukan were arrested...

The “Week in brief” by Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) is a weekly review of the most important human rights news and developments from and about Iran’s Kurdish areas. Kurdish political prisoner sentenced to death in Iran Kurdish political prisoner Ramin Hossein Panahi has been sentenced to death in Iran’s Kurdish Sanandaj city on charges of membership in an outlawed armed Kurdish opposition party. The Branch One...

The “Week in brief” by Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) is a weekly review of the most important human rights news and developments from and about Iran’s Kurdish areas. Iranian Kurdish political prisoner in court says faced deadly torture Kurdish political Ramin Hossein Panahi attended first court hearing on 15 January at Branch One of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Iran’s Sanandaj headed by Judge...

The “Week in brief” by Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) is a weekly review of the most important human rights news and developments from and about Iran’s Kurdish areas.   Iran government aid not enough to help earthquake victims Residents of Iranian Kurdish areas hit by a 7.3 magnitude earthquake have said that the government is not providing adequate relief and that the government agencies have not...

Iranian forces continue arresting pro-independence Kurdish demonstrators Iranian intelligence agents and security forces have continued to arrest and interrogate civilian Kurds who had taken part in celebrations after a referendum on Kurdish statehood was held in neighbouring Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan Region. KHRN has obtained names of some of those Iranian Kurds detained and questioned at various detention centres of the Iranian security forces in some of...

Iran executes a man publicly in Ilam for murder Iranian authorities publicly executed a prisoner on murder charges at the Modarres street in the morning of 17 September in the city of Ilam, The prisoner was sentenced to death last December for having killed a woman. He was executed on Qisas law at the request of the victim’s family. This was the second public execution in Ilam in...

Iran forces continue arresting Kurdish Baneh protesters The Iranian security forces have continued arresting Kurds who have been identified as participants of the recent Baneh protests against the killing of two civilian Kurdish Kolbar workers. Over 30 people have so far been arrested after the security forces had identified them as Baneh protesters, a local source has said. Iranian under cover agents had arrested one of them...