Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Investigations carried out by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) show that many Kurdish civilians and activists from Iran have become victims of human rights violations in August 2022. The followings are the detailed information collected by the KHRN statistics and documentation centre regarding these violations. Executions In August, Iran executed a prisoner in Arak Central Prison, Markazi province, over drug-related charges. This is the only execution case...

Investigations carried out by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) show that many Kurdish civilians and activists from Iran have become victims of human rights violations in January 2022. The followings are the detailed information collected by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) statistics and documentation centre regarding these violations. Executions In January, Iran executed three prisoners in the cities of Mehran, Eyvan-e Gharb, and Ilam in...

This report addresses the human rights situation in 2021 in relation to the Kurdish people in Iran. As in previous years, the rights of Kurdish people have continued to be violated due to their language, religions, culture, genders, sexual orientations, and class and political affiliations by the Islamic Republic's discriminatory laws and repressive and violent crackdowns by its security, military, judicial, and executive institutions. The...

Kurdish literary and cultural woman activist Zahra (also Zara) Mohammadi presented herself today at the court of Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, to serve a five-year prison sentence. The court's Enforcement of Judgements Office arrested the activist and transferred her to the Juvenile Detention Centre in Sanandaj. Mohammadi had been accused of allegedly "forming groups and societies with the aim of disrupting national security" over her activities, which...

A man has killed his wife in Surkal village in western Iran's Kermanshah province. The identity of the 43-year-old victim is not yet known. "The killer is a 48-year-old man who had fled after the murder", the Iranian Rokna News agency quoted the Kermanshah police chief as saying. The police chief added that after the killer was arrested by the police, he confessed to killing his...

Investigations carried out by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) show that many Kurdish civilians and activists from Iran have become victims of human rights violations in December 2021. The followings are the detailed information collected by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) statistics and documentation centre regarding these violations. Executions In December, Iran executed six prisoners in the central prisons of the northwestern cities of Sanandaj,...

Families of Iranian Kurdish asylum seekers, who were deported to Syria by Turkey, gathered in front of the Turkish embassy in Tehran for the second day in a row on 15 December, demanding the release of their family members. The Turkish police had detained Kurdish asylum seekers Damavand Pakseresht, Mobin Valadbeigi, Afshar Rostami, Bahman Shadravan, Massoud Heidari, Saeed Ahmadi, Fardin Darvishpour, Hedayat Rokhzadi and Samran...

An Iranian security-intelligence institution continues to refuse to provide medical treatment to a Kurdish fighter injured and detained during a clash on 14 May. Iranian border forces had ambushed a group of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) members and injured Adem Ozkan, a party member from Turkey, in Oshnavieh, West Azerbaijan province. Reportedly, Ozkan is held without medical treatment in the detention facility of the Intelligence...

Investigations carried out by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) show that many Kurdish civilians and activists from Iran have become victims of human rights violations in November 2021. The followings are the detailed information collected by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) statistics and documentation centre regarding these violations. Executions On 3 November, Iran executed a prisoner named Manouchehr Kazemi in Ghezel Hesar Prison of Kermanshah. Kazemi,...