Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish political prisoner on hunger strike Saeed Shirzad was transferred to a prison infirmary and then to a hospital outside his prison following a sudden drop in his blood pressure on 12 January. Another Kurdish political prisoner, Foad Yousefi, detained in Rajaei Shahr prison (Karaj), is also on hunger strike. Zeynab Sakanvand Lakran, a Kurdish female prisoner held in Orumiyeh prison, has put an end to...

"Zeynab Sekanvand Lakran, a young female prisoner who has been accused of murder when she was 17, has been kept in the women's ward of Orumiyeh Central prison waiting to be executed,” a reliable source told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). The source said that "Zeynab Sekanvand Larkan, name of her father Mohammad, born on 22 June 1994, National Insurance Number 282-016792-6, she was born...