Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Iran’s Security forces arrested a Kurdish Yarsan activist who was a resident of Neka (a city in the north of Iran) and transferred him to an unknown location. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that on Aug 30, 2017, Hossein Mansouri,a Kurdish Yarsan activist was arrested by security forces in Neka and transferred to an unknown location. "This activist has only had one...

On 24 April, two Yarsan’s brothers immolated themselves by fire and both have lost their lives due to severe injuries. A source close to Fozoni’s family reports Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that on 24 April Mahdi, the younger brother who was unemployed and recently suffering from severe depression went to Sarab Qamar (in Kermanshah Province, Iran) immolated himself by the fire. He left a...

The prosecutor office of Iran’s Takestan once again summoned Yarsani activist Siavash Koliayee to the office on 21 October on the request of the intelligence agency that tries to prosecute the activist in a new case, a source told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). “The authorities at the prosecutor office told Koliayee that the intelligence office of Ghazvin had recorded his telephone conversations and...

The Yarsani Consultative Assembly of Civil Rights Activists has written letter to the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran for the second time over the past few years urging him to put an end to the persecutions of the Yarsan religious group. “Not only we have not received any answers from the Cabinet of his Excellency over the last 15 months, but we...

Members of the Yarsani religious community in Iran’s Islamabad Gha===rb have taken part in widespread protests to condemn sectarian insults made against them by some election campaigners, a Yarsani rights activist told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). The source said the Yarsani community came under abusive attacks by election campaigners of Iranian parliamentary candidate Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh, and that this happened after they organized a party-like...