Kurdistan Human Rights Network

A worker, 'Isaac Rouhi”, was sentenced to one year in prison by branch 1 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj on charges of "propaganda against the state”. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has obtained information that the verdict was served on this Kurdish worker after being summoned to the court on Aug 20, 2019. His hearing was held on August 10 without the presence...

In the last few days, two young Kurdish workers in the industrial city of Sanandaj fell from the scaffold and one of them lost his life. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that on Saturday, April 07, two workers from Sanandaj called Navid Mohammadi (28 years old) and Ismail Zandi fell from the scaffold during the construction work in the Industrial Town No....

On Monday, March 05, five civil activists including a Kurdish singer were interrogated at the Interrogation Department of the Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj (Branch 4) on charges of propaganda against the regime through the celebration of the Newroz last year. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that five labour activists in Sanandaj, called Muzaffar Salehnia, Sharif Sa'edpanah, Khaled Hosseini, Ghaleb Hosseini and...

One of the eight workers wounded at the Khorshid Zivar Station in Ahwaz on Monday night February 12 died of injuries in the hospital due to the explosion of gas cylinders. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that on Monday night, February 12, eight workers from Marivan called Adnan Saeedi, Zanyar Dardan, Atta Darashi, Abdul Rahman Karimi, Mohammad Yarosufi and two brothers Muhammad...

According to reports received by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network, On Friday, Aug 04, three Kurdish labourers named Masoud Taleb Zadeh, Seyed Jalal Azizian and Salar Morad Pour from Gol Sandous Village lost their lives due to gas leaking while repairing a water pipe in a well. According to eyewitnesses, first a labourer gets bogged down and then two other Labourers went inside the well...

During the last few days, a Kurdish worker from Divandareh who was working in Tehran, had attempted suicide and lost his life for an unknown reason. Another worker from Marivan also died as a result of work-related accident in Tehran Metro. Kamil.B a Kurdish worker, from Divandareh who was working in a factory in Tehran committed suicide by hanging himself on 25 May, 2017 and...