Kurdistan Human Rights Network

The Kurdistan Human Rights Network's (KHRN) recent investigations have revealed numerous cases of human rights violations against Kurdish civilians and activists from Iran in July 2023. Our Documentation and Statistics Centre has compiled a comprehensive report on the various violations perpetrated against these individuals, which we present in this monthly report. Executions According to these findings, Iran executed at least 12 prisoners over the past month in...

Siamand Shaboyi, a member of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI), was assassinated near Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, on 12 July. This comes just a week after two other members of the same party, Loghman Aji and Adel Mohajer, were assassinated in a recreational area in Qaladza, in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has...

The detained Kurdish civilians Musa Esmaeili and Peyman Galvani have been tortured to death over the past two days in the Ministry of Intelligence detention centre in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan province, north-west Iran. Esmaeili, a 31-year-old father of two, was arrested by security forces on 7 May in the village of Pasveh in Piranshahr, West Azerbaijan province, and taken to the Ministry of Intelligence detention...

The Kurdistan Human Rights Network's (KHRN) recent investigations have revealed numerous cases of human rights violations against Kurdish civilians and activists from Iran in June 2023. Our Documentation and Statistics Centre has compiled a comprehensive report on the various violations perpetrated against these individuals, which we present in this monthly report. Executions According to these findings, Iran executed at least seven prisoners over the past month in...

Investigations carried out by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) show that many Kurdish civilians and activists from Iran became victims of human rights violations in May 2023. The followings are the detailed information collected by the KHRN statistics and documentation centre regarding these violations. Executions Iran executed at least 23 prisoners over the past month in Orumiyeh, Sanandaj, Salmas, Kermanshah, Karaj, Mashhad, Khorramabad, and Rasht. Only one...

This annual report covers the human rights situation of Kurds in Iran from 21 March 2022 to 21 March 2023. As in previous years, the violation of the rights of Kurdish people on the basis of their language, religion, culture, gender, sexual orientation, class, political choices, etc. continued due to the discriminatory laws of the Islamic Republic and the repressive and violent actions of...

Today, 43 international human rights groups, including Amnesty International, in a joint statement called on the United Nations Human Rights Council "to urgently hold a special session on Iran and establish an independent mechanism with investigative, reporting & accountability functions to address the most serious crimes under international law and other gross human rights violations committed in Iran, including in the context of successive...

Relatives of the 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa(Zhina) Amini, who is in a coma after being arrested and beaten by the Iranian morality police, spoke to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) about the continuation of her worrying situation. The relatives said that Amini's family were shocked by what happened to their daughter and that they were exposed to intense pressure and threats from security...

Iran's Border Guard Command forces have shot and wounded at least nine kolbars in the country's western borders in the past few days. On 4 September, border forces targeted kolbars in three areas in Nowsud, Kermanshah province, injuring four kolbars identified as Eghbal Alizadeh, Hemmat Abdi, Ali Ahmadi and Parviz Moradi. On 2 September, border guards opened fire on kolbars in two areas in Baneh, Kurdistan...