Kurdistan Human Rights Network

A group of retired employees of the Telecommunication Company of Iran took to the streets in Kermanshah, Kermanshah Province, today to demonstrate their dissatisfaction with their living conditions and to press for the resolution of various issues. The protests were not limited to Kermanshah, as similar demonstrations by retired telecom workers took place simultaneously in several cities across the country. The main demands of the pensioners...

A 30-year-old worker from ‌Bukan named Rezgar Hajizadeh died in an explosion at an oil refinery in the city of Duhok in the Kurdistan Region yesterday, a reliable source told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). According to unofficial statistics, thousands of Kurdish civilians from different cities of Iranian Kurdistan are employed by the industrial, construction, agricultural and climatic sectors of Kurdistan Region.

Kurdish civil rights activist Voria Delangiz who had previously been sentenced by the Marivan Criminal Court to four months in prison and 24 lashes for "disturbing public order," was sent to prison, on Sunday, August 09. The trial of this activist was held on March 4. Voria Delangiz was arrested in September 2017 after being summoned to the Marivan Intelligence Office and was released on bail...

Labour activist Bakhtiar Rahimi has been sentenced by the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Marivan to two years in prison on charges of "acting against national security” during the past few days. The activist was arrested on December 27 at his workplace in the Marivan Electricity Department but he was released from Sanandaj prison on December 21 on a bail of 100 million Tomans. Amnesty International...

Haydar Ghorbani, a Kurdish labour activist and a member of the Free Trade Union of Iran who was detained by security forces at his family home in Tehran on June 7, 2020, is still being detained at Ward 209 of Evin Prison. During this period, the activist has had only two short telephone calls with his family. Despite his family's enquiries made to the court...