Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Fardin Jafari, a 27-year-old civilian with mental disability, is in a critical condition after being shot in the head by an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) sniper near Aichi cemetery in Saqqez, Kurdistan Province, on the afternoon of 16 September. The shooting took place on the anniversary of the government's killing of Jina Mahsa Amini, a young Kurdish woman who is buried in the Aichi...

In a continuation of arrests targeting the families of the victims of the Woman, Life, Freedom protests, security forces today arrested Rezan Saedi and Moayyed Saedi, the aunt and brother of Sarina Saedi, and Omid Niyazi, the brother of Mohsen Niyazi, in the cities of Sanandaj and Dehgolan in Kurdistan Province. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that security forces today surrounded the...

As the anniversary of the Woman, Life, Freedom Uprising approaches, there have been reports of significant deployments of special police forces and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) units in Orumiyeh, Bukan, Mahabad, Saqqez, Divandarreh, Sanandaj, Marivan, Kamyaran, Javanrud, Kermanshah, Eslamabad-e Gharb, Ilam and Abdanan. According to information gathered by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), in recent days, thousands of anti-insurgency personnel from police forces...

The trial of lawyer Golaleh Vatandoust and journalist Zhina Modares Gorji has taken place over the past two days at Branch One of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province. Yesterday, Vatandoust appeared before Judge Saeidi on charges of "propaganda against the state on cyberspace", "formation, management, or membership of a group or organisation with the intent to disrupt national security", and "membership in...

Amjad Amini, the father of Jina Mahsa Amini, has been summoned and interrogated by the Ministry of Intelligence in Saqqez, Kurdistan Province, four times in the past two weeks. A relative of the Amini family revealed that the most recent summons was on 11 September, during which Mr Amini was questioned for one hour. During the interrogation, the relative told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN),...

Security forces have arrested civilians Samira Ahmadi, Esmaeil Barkhordari, Kourosh Abdi and Omid Karimi in the cities of Saqqez and Divandarreh in Kurdistan Province in recent days and taken them to undisclosed locations. This is part of a recent wave of arrests of Kurdish civilians and activists ahead of the anniversary of last year's anti-government protests. Ahmadi was arrested today without a court warrant while driving...

The parents of Jina Mahsa Amini have announced that they will commemorate the first anniversary of their daughter's death at her grave in Saqqez, Kurdistan Province. In a statement posted on the Instagram account of Jina Mahsa Amini's father, Amjad Amini, Mojgan Eftakhari and Amjad Amini addressed their "esteemed compatriots" and "dear sisters and brothers" to announce the details of the event. The Amini family said...

Parsa Ghobadi, a young protester who was shot in both eyes during the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising in Kermanshah, Kermanshah Province, on 21 November 2022, was arrested by security forces in the city on 4 September. The current whereabouts and fate of the young man from Kamyaran, Kurdistan Province, remain unknown. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that security agents arrested Ghobadi without a...

Kurdish journalist Nazila Maroofian has revealed in a phone call from Tehran's Evin prison that she was sexually assaulted and physically beaten by security forces during her latest arrest, the fourth since last year's anti-government protests. Maroofian, who was arrested on 30 August during a violent raid by security forces on her home in Tehran, said in an audio recording of a phone call that...