Kurdistan Human Rights Network

For the second day in a row, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has carried out intense shelling, causing extensive environmental damage in the Shaho mountainous region near the villages of Tangivar and Palangan in Kamyaran, Kurdistan Province. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that IRGC forces stationed around the villages of Tangivar and Palangan carried out aggressive shelling on 29 January, causing...

Worries have heightened over the well-being and fate of Edris Feqhi, a member of the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK), who was detained by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) almost 29 months ago. Fatemeh Maghsoudi, Faqhi's mother, expressed her frustration in a video obtained by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), saying that the security forces have not provided clear answers regarding her son's...

Fardin Jafari, a 27-year-old civilian with mental disability, is in a critical condition after being shot in the head by an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) sniper near Aichi cemetery in Saqqez, Kurdistan Province, on the afternoon of 16 September. The shooting took place on the anniversary of the government's killing of Jina Mahsa Amini, a young Kurdish woman who is buried in the Aichi...

Retired Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Colonel Mohammad Mehrdadi, from Mehran in Ilam Province, was shot dead by a senior IRGC commander's guard on 5 September while protesting outside the IRGC command headquarters in Tehran. An informed source who spoke to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) said: "Mohammad Mehrdadi had financial problems and unpaid wages from the IRGC, which led him to travel from...

Sirous Shokri Elyasi, a Kurdish civilian on military service, was shot dead on 24 July at the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) base in the village of Delazi in Salmas, West Azerbaijan province, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. While IRGC officials claimed that Shokri had committed suicide, the Department of Forensic Medicine confirmed that he was shot from a distance. Shokri's family was...

Detained environmental activists Mohsen Dadgar, Saeid Dadgar and Yasser Saberi were recently transferred from the Revolutionary Guards' Shahramfar detention centre in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, to the city's central prison after their interrogation. The activists were arrested by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on 20 June while attempting to extinguish forest fires caused by IRGC shelling on Mount Kusalan. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has...

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) stationed in the border area of Bamo in the Ezgeleh district of Salas-e Babajani, Kermanshah province, western Iran, shot dead Qazi Mustafa, a 50-year-old resident of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, while he was extinguishing a fire in the border areas. A source that spoke to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) said: "On 11 July, a mountainous area...

The Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has been holding environmental activists Mohsen Dadgar, Saeid Dadgar, and Yasser Saberi in detention for over two weeks without access to legal representation or visits from their families. The activists were arrested by IRGC forces on 20 June while attempting to extinguish forest fires caused by IRGC shelling of Mount Kusalan. After their arrest, the individuals...

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) abducted environmental activists Mohsen Dadgar, Saeid Dadgar, and Yasser Saberi on 20 June while they were returning from the Kusalan mountain area where they had gone to control the wildfires. The fires were caused by the Revolutionary Guards shelling the area. After stopping their vehicle, the IRGC forces announced that travel to the Kusalan mountain area was prohibited and detained...