Kurdistan Human Rights Network

On the fourth anniversary of execution of 25 Sunni Kurdish prisoners in Rajaishahr Prison of Karaj, Kurdistan Human Rights Network publishes an interview with the Sunni prisoners at this prison regarding the details of enforcing the executions on 2nd August 2016. Sunni Kurds prisoner explains mass execution of fellow Sunni prisoners in Rajai Shahr prison on 2 August 2016. It was in October 2015 when the...

The death sentence of a prisoner Kamil Ghaderi Aghdam was carried out in Naqadeh prison. He was transferred to solitary confinement yesterday to serve his sentence, a reliable source told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). The prisoner from the village of Dilzeh in Piranshahr was arrested about two years ago on charges of premeditated murder and sentenced to retaliation (execution).

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that the death sentences of two prisoners, Asad Keshavarz and Amin Safarkesh, were carried out in Orumiyeh Central Prison this morning, July 20. The two prisoners were transferred to solitary confinement yesterday with another prisoner ‘Baitullah Motalebi’. Motalebi has been returned to the Counselling Ward after persuading “blood owners (Oliya-e-dam)" to give him time for paying the blood...

On Tuesday, June 30, the death sentence of a prisoner named Mohammad Aziz Mahmoudi was carried out in Sanandaj Central Prison, a reliable source told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). He was arrested in 2018 at the age of 23 on charges of premeditated murder and sentenced to death. In the past few days, following the transfer of this prisoner to solitary confinement to execute the...

On the early morning of Wednesday , June 10, death-row prisoner Rahin Yousefi hanged at Ormiyeh prison., a reliable source told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). Rahim Yousefi, 40 years old and father of two children and from the village of Soghanlu in Piranshahr of West Azerbaijan Province, confessed to the manslaughter of his friend two and a half years ago after 13 years but...

Three prisoners were hanged on Murder Charge at the central prisons of Orumiyeh and Sanandaj yesterday morning on April 28, reliable sources told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). Death row prisoners Yasser Rasooli and Zervar Peyghami were hanged at Orumiyeh Central Prison today morning. They were transferred to solitary confinement from ward 3.4 Orumiyeh Central Prison on April 27 in preparation for execution. Yasser Rasooli from...

Death row prisoner Keyvan Allah Moradi was hanged at the central prison of Sanandaj city, Kurdistan province, on Monday, April 27, a reliable source told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). Keyvan Allah Moradi was sentenced to retaliation (execution) about 5 years ago on charges of "premeditated murder". The 30-year-old prisoner was from the village of Bolbanabad in Dehgolan and the father of a 6-year-old child. Moradi...

In the past three days, four prisoners were executed on Murder Charge at the central prisons of Sanandaj and Dieselabad in Kermanshah, reliable sources told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). Today morning, on Friday, April 24, the death sentences of two prisoners, Abdul Wahed Faizi and Ramyar (Payam) Mukhles from Baneh, were carried out in Sanandaj Central Prison. Abdul Wahed Faizi in 2015 and Ramyar...

The death sentence of a prisoner "Loghman Ahmadpour" was carried out in Sanandaj Central Prison on April 22, and the death sentence of two other prisoners, "Hossein Haydari" and "Saeed Mohammadpour", were temporarily suspended at Saqqez and Sanandaj prisons. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that the death sentence of Loghman Ahmadpour from Baneh, who was transferred to solitary confinement in Sanandaj Central...