Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish prisoner Maraan Khamo lost his life due to the delay in being transferred to a hospital outside the Orumiyeh Central Prison whose death marks the third case in row since September in similar cases. “Khamo was taken to the prison's clinic on 8 November for health conditions deteriorated and was held there for several hours, however, he was returned to ward 15 despite no improvement...

Kurdish human rights defenders from East Kurdistan / Iran have written a letter to Kumi Naidoo, Secretary-General of Amnesty International. In this letter they express their concern about the violent and degrading treatment of Kurdish and non-Kurdish activists, who were protesting last week in the London office of Amnesty International against the global silence regarding the extensive hunger strike of Kurdish political prisoners in...

Hatam Ortoglu, a 70-year-old Kurdish Prisoner, citizen of Turkey who had been on hunger strike since November 11, in protest to not being transferred to a prison in Turkey, ended his hunger strike after the authorities promised to pay attention to his request. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that during a six-day hunger strike, Hatam Ortoglu was transferred to a prison...

A Detained Kurdish prisoner, citizen of Turkey who has been held at the central prison of Orumieh since 2010, has been on hunger strike on Sunday, November 11, in protest of his not being transferred to Turkeys prison. A source close to the family of the prisoner told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) Hatam Ortoglu, a 70-year-old resident of Gawar, was arrested in 2010 in...