Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Four prisoners, including two women, were executed in Ilam Central Prison on 3 December, after being convicted of “premeditated murder” in separate cases. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the individuals - Farideh Jafarzadeh, Aliyeh Kavarizadeh, Hassan Hassan-Beygi and Abdol-Vahab Babakhaniyan - were transferred to solitary confinement on 2 December in preparation for their executions. All four were sentenced to death after being...

The Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) raided the home of Kurdish civilian Abdollah Gholizadeh in Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province, at noon on 30 November 2024, beating and arresting him and his son, Hemin Gholizadeh. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that IRGC forces stormed the house without a warrant, searched the property and confiscated several personal belongings before physically...

In its monthly reports, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) highlights cases of human rights violations in Kurdistan and violations of the rights of Kurdish civilians in different regions and cities across Iran. This report includes all cases recorded and reported by KHRN from across Iran through its own sources and verification mechanisms from 1 November to 30 November. The restrictive environment for independent human rights...

Kurdish civilians Amir Mohammad-Khani and Behzad Dadkhah have been arrested by security forces in recent days and taken to undisclosed locations. Mohammad-Khani, a civil rights activist and former political prisoner from Divandarreh, Kurdistan Province, was arrested without a warrant by agents of the Ministry of Intelligence at his workplace in Divandarreh on 27 November. The activist was previously summoned and detained by the Ministry of Intelligence...

Hiwa Bahin, a Kurdish civilian from Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province, was arrested by security forces on 24 November . The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Bahin was arrested following a summons to the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Bukan and was then taken to the organisation’s detention centre in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province. Despite repeated inquiries by his...

Shir-Ali Tarkesh-Band, a prisoner from Sahneh, Kermanshah Province, was executed for drug-related offences on 27 November in Lakan Prison in Rasht, Gilan Province. Tarkesh-Band, 55, was arrested about four years ago on drug trafficking charges and later sentenced to death.

The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) and 17 other human rights organisations have issued a joint statement condemning the death sentences handed down to Kurdish women activists Verisheh Moradi (Wirishe Moradi) and Pakhshan Azizi. The human rights groups criticised the Islamic Republic’s escalating executions, particularly targeting women and Kurds since the Women, Life, Freedom uprising, and highlighted the lack of fair trials and the use...

The Kurdistan Province Court of Appeal has reduced the prison sentence of Srwa Pour-Mohammadi, a Kurdish language teacher and board member of the Nozhin Socio-Cultural Association, from 10 years to five years. The decision was delivered to Pour-Mohammadi’s lawyers on 25 November. In November 2023, Branch One of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj, presided over by Judge Karami, sentenced her to 10 years of imprisonment...

Three prisoners in Orumiyeh Central Prison, Hadi Rostami, Mehdi Shahivand and Mehdi Sharafian, have written an open letter to human rights organisations warning of the imminent execution of their amputation sentences.  These sentences, handed down in 2019 for theft, involve the amputation of four fingers on their right hands. The prisoners, who have been detained since September 2017, expressed their fears following the recent enforcement of...