Kurdistan Human Rights Network

The families of some of the prisoners in the women's ward of the Juvenile Detention Centre in Kermanshah spoke to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) about the grave situation in the prison. The families say about 70 women and a child are currently being held in the ward's five rooms. Most of these prisoners are forced to sleep on the floor due to the...

Security forces have arrested many residents of Darreh Drezh neighbourhood (also Mahdiyeh town) of Kermanshah during the protest rallies that have been taking place in recent days. People of the area have taken to the streets to express their support for the recent protests against water shortages in the southwestern Khuzestan province. A source in Kermanshah that spoke to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN)...

Iranian police has shot a group of people fighting each other, killing a civilian and injuring another in Darreh Drezh of Kermanshah province. Kurdish civilian Sirwan Mohammadi has lost his life and Ali Ahmadi has been seriously injured in the shooting that took place on 17 March. Ahmadi has been taken to hospital and is currently being held in the ICU, sources told the Kurdistan...

As the anniversary of November 2019 uprising in Iran, many streets in Kermanshah have witnessed a large presence of military and security forces. An informed source from Kermanshah also told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network that he witnessed the arrest of a number of civilians in Azadi Square (Terminal) in Kermanshah. The source stated that the security forces in many neighbourhoods and streets of Kermanshah...

On Thursday evening, the police forces started shooting at the car in Dolatabad area in Kermanshah city as a result of which a 17-year-old child named Ashkan Azizi was killed on the spot and another child named Borhan Azizi was seriously injured. A relative of Ashkan Azizi, who did not want to be identified told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network that 'yesterday evening at around 7:00...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): At least 2,000 Iranian Kurdish civilians and activists were arrested from 21 March 2019 to 21 March 2020, in the provinces of Kurdistan, West Azerbaijan, Ilam and Kermanshah. The largest number of mass arrests was related to the November 2019 protests in the cities of Kermanshah, Sanandaj, Marivan, Javanrood, Orumiyeh, Ilam and Bukan, following the sudden rise in gas...

Two Kurdish cultural activists called Mohyeddin Asghari and Sohbat Omidi have been released on a bail of 200 million tomans during the past few days.  However, the Yarsan civil activist named Khalil Asadi Bojani still remains in Dizelabad Prison of Kermanshah due to his family's inability to secure the bail of 210 million tomans. Sohbat Omidi and Mohyeddin Asghari were arrested and...

The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) was able to identify three other civilians killed in the recent protests in the Dolatabad neighborhood of Kermanshah as Younes Jalili, Saeed Rezai and Mozafar Vatan Dost. These civilians were killed during a protest rally in Kermanshah on 16 and 17 November by direct firing of the Iranian security forces. The families of these civilians paid the government about 50...

The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has obtained identity of a nother protester killed during the days of mass protests in Kermanshah. The 25-year-old young man from Kermanshah, Mohsen Karaminia, who shot dead by the Iranian security forces whose family has been threatened not to do any interviews with the media about how the victim was killed. The KHRN recently released the identity of 7 Kurdish...