Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Soldiers of the Islamic Republic of Iran have shot dead to Kurdish civilians and wounded another on 11 August. “Iranian forces opened fire on the car of two Kurdish citizens in the Sardasht area where the solders suspected them of allegedly transporting smuggled items,” a source told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). A 36-year-old woman identified as Jaleh Ghaderzadeh was killed inside the car and the...

  Locals in the Kurdish city of Mariwan have protested how the Iranian security forces tried to prevent women from participating in a weekly public environmental awareness activity. Riding bicycles as an environmental awareness campaign usually takes place on Thursdays across Iran Women and men of all ages together begun to take part in the campaign’s activities in the Kurdish city of Mariwan to support the full...

A local human rights source in the Rwansar area told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that "Iranian police went to a coffee shop in the city of Rawansar in order to shut down the shop on 24 January. But after a dispute with the shop's young Kurdish owner the police shot him in the head at point blank range and executed him". The source said:...