Kurdistan Human Rights Network

A group of retired employees of the Telecommunication Company of Iran took to the streets in Kermanshah, Kermanshah Province, today to demonstrate their dissatisfaction with their living conditions and to press for the resolution of various issues. The protests were not limited to Kermanshah, as similar demonstrations by retired telecom workers took place simultaneously in several cities across the country. The main demands of the pensioners...

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...

Security forces have detained hundreds of civilians in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, after the nationwide protests broke out over the murder of Mahsa (Zhina) Amini. They have taken the detained protestors to the security detention centre and the central prison of Sanandaj. The transfer of so many people to the prison resulted in the overpopulation of the prison, leading to problems for both inmates and detainees. Investigations carried...

Akbar Goyli, a Kurdish civil right activist, has been sent to Sanandaj Central Prison to serve a two-year prison sentence on Saturday, Jan 16, an informed source told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN).  This civil rights activist was sentenced to 5 years in prison by the Branch 1 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj on April 14, 2020, on charges of "collaborating with the Free...

A 30-year-old worker from ‌Bukan named Rezgar Hajizadeh died in an explosion at an oil refinery in the city of Duhok in the Kurdistan Region yesterday, a reliable source told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). According to unofficial statistics, thousands of Kurdish civilians from different cities of Iranian Kurdistan are employed by the industrial, construction, agricultural and climatic sectors of Kurdistan Region.