Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Motalleb Ahmadian, a Kurdish political prisoner currently serving the 13th year of a 30-year sentence at Tehran's Evin Prison, is facing severe health challenges, including a diaphragmatic hernia and

Security forces raided the home of Kurdish Sunni cleric Mohammad Sharifi in Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province, arresting him without a warrant on 27 August. Sources indicate that during the

The Islamic Revolutionary Court in Piranshahr, West Azerbaijan Province, has sentenced Mahvash Tavassoli and her husband, Jotyar Ashrafzadeh, who were arrested during the Woman, Life, Freedom

Prisoner Vafa Kharamani was executed for "premeditated murder" at Saqqez Prison on 27 August. The young man was arrested in the village of Qaplantu in Saqqez in May 2021 and was sentenced to death

Kurdish political prisoner Sakineh Parvaneh has been held in a state of uncertainty in the women's ward of Mashhad Central Prison in Razavi Khorasan Province for more than five months. Despite

Turkish authorities today moved at least 20 Iranian and Afghan asylum seekers from a refugee camp in Edirne, north-west Turkey, to an undisclosed location for deportation. Shahla Chorkeh, the wife

Branch One of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Saqqez, Kurdistan Province, has sentenced Kurdish labour activist and former political prisoner Osman Esmaeili to a total of 39 months in prison on

Abdollah Aboubakri, the father of Zanyar Aboubakri, one of the victims of the anti-government protests in Mahabad, West Azerbaijan Province, was detained and threatened for several hours today after

Seyvan Ebrahimi, a Kurdish language teacher and a member of the board of directors of the Nozhin Socio-Cultural Association, has been sentenced to one year in prison, 40 lashes and exile to Dizel