Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Siamand Shaboyi, a member of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI), was assassinated near Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, on 12 July. This comes just a week after two other members of the same party, Loghman Aji and Adel Mohajer, were assassinated in a recreational area in Qaladza, in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has...

Adel Mohajer and Loghman Aji, both members of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) from Piranshahr, West Azerbaijan province, were assassinated today in the village of Halsho in the Qaladze region of Sulaimaniyah, Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that political activist Saadi Moradpour was also injured in the shooting. The PDKI issued a statement saying that the killing...

Branch 3 of Orumiyeh Revolutionary Court has rejected the conditional release of Osman Mustafapour, the Kurdish political prisoner, who has been in prison since 1991 although the Orumiyeh Prosecutor's Office had already agreed with the request. Per reports received by Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), last week the Orumiyeh prosecutor announced that they had agreed with the conditional release of Osman Mustafapour and the prisoner's...

A Kurdish citizen was killed during the conflict between the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) forces and Peshmerga of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (PDKI) near the city of Paveh. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that, on Monday, Oct 12, 2018, IRGC forces surrounded the Bimiri promenade in Paveh on the pretext of facing a team of Peshmergah of (PDKI) and...

The Supreme Court (Branch 47) approved the death sentence for Hedayat Abdollahpour, a prisoner detained at Orumiyeh Central Prison. The court also equally approved the long prison sentence for six other people who were arrested along with Abdollahpour in a conflict at Qaresoghl village in June 2016 and later released on bail. In a conversation with the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), Hossein Ahmad Niazi...

On Saturday morning, Sept 8, 2018, three Kurdish political prisoners called Ramin Hossein Panahi, Zanyar Moradi and Loghman Moradi were executed in Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj. The transfer of Ramin Hossein Panahi from Sanandaj prison to Rajai Shahr prison and transfer of Zanyar and Loghman Moradi to solitary confinement had increased fears about their imminent execution. However, it was expected that the widely...

In an interview with the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), Hossein Ahmad Niazi (the attorney to Hedayat Abdollahpour) confirmed that he had visited him at Orumiyeh Central Prison last week and he had contested the verdict. Hedayat Abdullahpour was arrested following the complaint and report of the Revolutionary Guards Corps (RGC) of Shno and Orumiyeh. He was sentenced to death by Revolutionary Court of Orumiyeh...

Revolutionary Court of Orumiyeh (Branch 2) reinstated the sever sentence issued for seven Kurdish citizens from Oshnavieh on the charge of "assisting the armed action of members of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) of Iran by providing shelter, food and supplies for them in addition to acting as main members of PDKI and the propaganda activity in favour of that party. This...

On Wednesday,January 3, during a siege of one of the villages of Piranshahr by the Intelligence Forces and the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRCG), a clash took place between these forces and Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran. As a result of this incident, six members of the Ministry of Intelligence and IRCG were killed. Following the outbreak of the conflict, reports from Hamza Seyyed al-Shohda's...