Kurdistan Human Rights Network

The forces of Security and Intelligence Services of Turkey (MI) beat up the family of a Kurdish asylum seeker activist in Turkey and kidnapped two members of the family and transferred them to a security detention centre. "At 18:30 on Nov 18, 2017, the family of Sheida Rahimi (Kurdish asylum seeker activist) was beaten up while returning to their place of residence in Istanbul by...

A Kurdish citizen of Turkey who had travelled to Orumiyeh to visit his family in May was arrested by security forces and sentenced to five years of Imprisonment by the Revolutionary Court of Orumiyeh on charges of cooperating with one of the Kurdish parties. “In late June, a Kurdish citizen called Rahim Turgut residing in the city of Gever (Bakurê Kurdistanê/Turkish Kurdistan) was arrested by...

At least six Kurdish political prisoners in Iran's Orumiyeh and Tabriz prisons were on hunger strike to show solidarity with Kurdish political prisoners in neighbouring Turkey. The prisoners in Iran's Orumiyeh and Tabriz went on strike on 10 April and ended their strike on 14 April. Kurdish political prisoners Saman Nesim, Kemal Remezan, Ehmed Temuyi, Ibrahim Isapour, Yusif Kake Memi in Orumiyeh ( AKA Urmiye)  prison...

Kurdish writers and cultural activists, as well as PEN International, have voiced concerns over the fate of two Iranian Kurdish writers that the Turkish police have held in pre-trial detention for several months in Mardin area. They call for their immediate release and urge support from both the international human rights organizations and the Iranian ministry of foreign affairs. Find below the petition that demands the...

The Iranian authorities have released several local Kurdish political and civil activists who had been arrested on 4 February during a solidarity rally held to condemn Turkish army killing of brethren Kurds. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) sources said that the detainees had been released following a protest held outside the Tee Shalom detention centre. "The number of the arrested is still unclear, but it has...