Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Althought the Iranian security forces had urged the families of casualties of the November protests not to hold mourning ceremonies, Kurdish civilians held a mourning ceremony for Mina Sheikhi in the city of Saqqez and five other victims killed in the city of Marivan, local sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). "On 26 December, the family of Mina Sheikhi and a group of...

The Iranian security forces shot dead a Kurdish woman while she was watching the protests on the top of her apartment along with her neighbors. Mina Sheikhi, born in 1960 and a single mother of six children from Saqqez who was residing in Tehran, was shot dead by the Iranian security forces on the roof of her apartment in...