Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Security forces have arrested five more Kurdish citizens as part of a broader wave of arrests targeting Kurdish citizens and activists across several provinces, taking them to undisclosed

Jalal Sadafi and Ghader Kharamanfar, Kurdish citizens who were detained by the Ministry of Intelligence in December 2024, have been provisionally released on bail from Mahabad Prison, the Kurdistan

Iranian authorities have executed two prisoners on drug-related charges at Karaj Central Prison in Alborz Province. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Ali Eytivandi and

Security forces have arrested a Kurdish activist as well as three other individuals, including a 16-year-old child, in a series of detentions carried out without judicial warrants, amid a wider wave

Sedigheh Ghorbani, a woman who was sentenced to death on charges of “premeditated murder”, has been executed at Orumiyeh Central Prison. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned

Javad Alikurdi, a lawyer with a PhD in Law and the brother of the recently deceased former political prisoner Khosrow Alikurdi, has been arrested by security forces in Mashhad and taken to an

Three Kurdish teachers’ union activists in Saqqez, Kurdistan Province, are facing judicial proceedings after the local prosecutor accused them of “disruption of public order”, the Kurdistan

A further five Kurdish citizens have been detained by security forces in Mahabad and Piranshahr and taken to undisclosed locations as the latest wave of arrests in Kurdish regions continues. The

Three members of the Iraqi Kurdistan-based AVA Media, who were detained by the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Sardasht, West Azerbaijan Province, are