Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Yesterday, Wednesday, March 01, a Kurdish activist known as Osman Ismaili began her two months imprisonment sentence. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that on February 04, Saqqez Enforcement Office has summoned Ms Rabieh Rahmani, who provided bail for Osman Ismaili, and notified her that this activist should introduce himself to Court Enforcement Office for serving his 2 months imprisonment sentence. The workers'...

A worker from Kamyaran lost his life at Tohid Hospital in Sanandaj due to severe burn injuries. According to reports received by Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), on February 09, Bijan Gholoozi, a worker at Kamyaran Asphalt factory, referred to the factory's office to enquire about his wages which had not been paid for the past 11 months. An hour later, he suffered from serious...

On Wednesday, Dec 27, 2017, a group of laborers of Marivan Municipality held a rally in protest to non-payment of Salaries in front of the city's municipality building. “More than two hundred and fifty Laborers from the municipality of Marivan, who had been kept quiet for months with the promise of the municipality's officials paying a salary of nine months, had to hold the protest...

Despite the fact that three days have passed since the arrest of Ezat Nasri, a Kurdish Labor activist from Saqqez, there is no information available on his fate. "On Saturday, Dec 23, 2017, security forces arrested Ezat Nasri at Saqqez main square and transferred him to an unknown location," a source told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). Despite his family’s follow-up with the judicial and intelligence...

Iranian security forces arrested another Kurdish Labour activist in Sanandaj yesterday and transferred him to the Intelligence Detention Centre of this city. Reports received by Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) indicate that On Friday, Sept 29, 2017, Sanandaj security forces entered Foad Zandi's home by breaking the door, arrested and transferred him to the Intelligence Detention Centre in Sanandaj while confiscating some of his...

Security forces in Sanandaj arrested a labour activist yesterday and transferred him to the intelligence headquarters in the city of Sanandaj. “On Tuesday, September 26, the security forces of Sanandaj arrested Saleh Nia (the Kurdish labour activist and a member of the board of directors of the Free Trade Union of Iran Workers) at his office without arrest warrants. He was then transferred to the...

Last week, two people were burnt when Sanandaj municipality officers demolished and burned a residential building under construction. According to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network's report, On Thursday, Aug 24, 2017, the Sanandaj municipality officers called "Enforcement Unit" were deployed to Laleh alley located in Nabovat square with the aim of stopping illegal construction. The enforcement authorities of the municipality confronted and threatened the landlord...

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...

The Islamic Revolutionary Court in the city of Saqqez has sentenced Kurdish trade unionist Osman Esmaeli to one year in prison on charges of “propaganda” against national interests. "On 28 April 2015, a few days before International Workers' Day, Osman Esmaeli, a worker and atrade unionist, was arrested by Iranian security forces at his workplace in Saqqez. He was interrogated for 12 days at the...