Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Investigations carried out by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) show that many Kurdish civilians and activists from Iran have become victims of human rights violations in July 2021. The following are the detailed information collected by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) statistics and documentation centre regarding these violations. ExecutionsIn July, Iran carried out the death penalties of eight prisoners on charges of drugs and...

Iranian border regiment has opened fire on a group of kolbars in the Tah Tah mountain pass in Hawraman area on 6 June, as a result of which a 35-year-old kolbar from Marivan named Soran Qaderi has been wounded, sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). Meanwhile, an 18-year-old kolbar named Yousef Farjami from the village of Dim Qeshlaq in West Azerbaijan province has...

Civil rights activist and student Viyan Mohammadi has gone on hunger strike on 31 May to protest against her unlawful detention. A source familiar with the detainee's situation confirmed the news to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) and said: “Viyan Mohammadi, who has been detained by the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Tehran since 30 April, has gone on...

Iranian police have shot and killed a Kurdish tradesman named Hossein Faraji yesterday in the border area of Balaki village of Baneh, in Kurdistan province. A source from Baneh told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that the police opened fire on the tradesman’s car without warning and killed him on the spot. The source added that the Kurdish tradesman’s car was targeted by the police...

A 27-year-old prisoner named Nasser Karimi has lost his life in Bukan Prison on 2 June due to being denied medical treatment after he was tortured, sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). Karimi was arrested by the agents of the Criminal Investigation Department in Bukan on 30 May and was taken the next day to the quarantine ward of Bukan Prison. After being tortured...

Iranian border guards on Sunday 30 May have opened fire on a group of kolbars in the Sartazin border area in Baneh, Kurdistan province, injuring a kolbar named Mohammad Rahmani. The injured kolbar has been taken to a medical centre in Sanandaj for treatment.