Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Foad Fathi, a Kurdish labour activist and political prisoner from Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, has been on hunger strike for 10 days in Evin Prison in Tehran, protesting against the targeted

The recent protests were among the most widespread in the history of the Islamic Republic of Iran and were met with a bloody and unprecedented crackdown. At the height of the unrest on 8 and 9

Nasser Bekrzadeh, a Kurdish prisoner accused of “espionage for Israel” has been sentenced to death for a third time by the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province,

Concerns have intensified over the imminent risk of execution of Kurdish political prisoner Mehrab Abdollahzadeh, after Branch 39 of the Supreme Court rejected his request for a retrial and refused

A Kurdish woman from Marivan, Kurdistan Province, was shot dead in the city of Sulaymaniyah in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq on 12 February. Khatereh (Awat) was killed by four gunshots and

The detention order of former political prisoner and Kurdish activist Yasser Advaei has been extended for another month, prolonging his continued detention without access to legal counsel or family

There is no information about at least three Kurdish citizens the authorities have arrested in connection with the recent protests in Kamyaran, Esfarayen and Ilam. Milad Ebrahimi, a 30-year-old

Four more Kurdish citizens, including a 15-year-old child, have been killed by military-security forces of the Islamic Republic during the recent protests in Tehran, Mashhad and Rasht, the Kurdistan

The Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence of Yaghoub Karimpour, an Azerbaijani Turkic citizen and member of the Yarsan religious minority convicted of “espionage for Israel”, placing him at