Kurdistan Human Rights Network

The “Week in brief” by Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) is a weekly review of the most important human rights news and developments from and about Iran’s Kurdish areas. Iran’s Kurdish regions militarized amid anti-government protests Iranian police, security forces and the loyalist militias of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) have been deployed across the country’s Kurdish areas amid on-going anti-government protests. Locals, sources and activists...

In the past days, following the strike and protest in various cities of Iran, six students have been arrested in Orumiyeh and Kermanshah while another student in Saqez has been summoned and questioned by the Intelligence Service. According to the information obtained by Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), on Friday, Dec 29, 2017, anti-riot forces and plainclothes forces arrested three students of Razi University of...

Despite the vast presence of anti-riot and uniformed officers in various cities of Kurdistan, reports indicate that various gatherings in different cities still continue. According to reports received by Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) from Sanandaj, Kermanshah, Ilam, Islamabad, West of Oromiyeh, Bukan and Dehloran, Hundreds of anti-riot forces and Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) plainclothes forces have been stationed in the main squares and...

On Wednesday,January 3, during a siege of one of the villages of Piranshahr by the Intelligence Forces and the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRCG), a clash took place between these forces and Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran. As a result of this incident, six members of the Ministry of Intelligence and IRCG were killed. Following the outbreak of the conflict, reports from Hamza Seyyed al-Shohda's...

The “Week in brief” by Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) is a weekly review of the most important human rights news and developments from and about Iran’s Kurdish areas. Iran forces arrest Kurdish anti-government protesters in Kermanshah Iranian security forces and plainclothes agents of the intelligence ministry have abducted and detained dozens of protesters who had demonstrated against government’s economic policies and demanded the release...

Following the spread of nationwide protests in Iran over the past few days, security forces have created a state of fear in some of Iran's Kurdish cities. Meanwhile, over the past few days, hundreds of protesters have been arrested by security forces and riot police in various western cities of Iran. Despite the state of fear in the cities, protests have spread, especially in Kermanshah. "This...