Kurdistan Human Rights Network

For the second day in a row, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has carried out intense shelling, causing extensive environmental damage in the Shaho mountainous region near the villages of Tangivar and Palangan in Kamyaran, Kurdistan Province. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that IRGC forces stationed around the villages of Tangivar and Palangan carried out aggressive shelling on 29 January, causing...

Security forces raided the annual meeting of the Chya the Green Organisation in the village of Nachi in Marivan, Kurdistan Province, on 10 September, arresting at least 25 members. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that while most of those detained were released after signing written undertakings, activists Madeh Khoshnavaz, Kaveh Dastan and Kaveh Karimian remain in custody. Last night, the detainees were transferred...

After several days of relentless efforts by environmental activists and teams dispatched from various cities in Kurdistan, the raging wildfires that devastated the forests of Marivan, Kurdistan province, continue to pose a significant challenge. In an interview with the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), one of the environmental activists present in the affected area confirmed the presence of a human element in the extensive wildfires,...

Iranian forces shot dead 40-year-old Kurdish civilian Frashad Ibrahimi after they opened fire on his vehicle at a checkpoint around the village of Sarqala near the town of Kamyaran, on the Kamyaran-Kermanshah road, on 24 December.  His body was handed back to his family on 26 December following examination by a forensic doctor in Kermanshah, Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) was told.  A photo seen by...

Prison authorities in Sanandaj Central Prison in Kurdistan province, northwestern Iran, have taken strict security measures inside the prison following the severe suppression of protesting prisoners on 1 October. "On 1 October, after the prisoners' protests started, the doors of some prison wards were opened and the prisoners tried to escape from the prison. But they were severely suppressed with the intervention of the prison...