Kurdish Centre for Human Rights
Centre Kurde des Droits de l’Homme
Persian version GENEVA (3 September 2021) – UN human rights experts* have appealed to Iran to halt the imminent execution of Iranian Kurdish prisoner Heidar Ghorbani and repeal his death sentence amid serious concerns that he did not receive a fair trial and was tortured during pre-trial detention. “The Iranian authorities must immediately halt the…
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An Iranian court has sentenced Kurdish female civil rights activist Zahra Mohammadi to five years in prison for teaching Kurdish language in the Kurdish region of Iran, sources have told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). On 16 February 2020, Branch 1 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj – presided over by Judge Saeidi…
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Investigations carried out by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) demonstrate the human rights violations committed by Iran against Kurds in the first month of the year as 101 have been arrested, six have lost their lives while trading across borders, one shot dead by the police, and a man executed in prison. According to…
The wave of arrests against Kurdish civil society in Iran harshly affects women. Some of the women detained continue to be interrogated in Revolutionary Guard prisons. The wave of arrests that has hit Kurdish civil society in Rojhilat since January also affects several women. At least six of a total of twelve activists who have…
According to reports received to the Human Rights Association Kurdistan (KMMK) e.V. , with the last four environmental, civilian activists in the different cities arrested, the number of detainees reached ninety-two persons. During the past two weeks, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard and intelligence forces of Iran initiated an operation to arrest many human rights, environmental,…
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A woman named Sonya Degkan was abducted by four people and tortured to death in Sardasht, Eastern Kurdistan. Kurdpa Agency reported that Sonya Dagkan was kidnapped from her workplace by 4 people who were her relatives. The woman is reported to have been taken to a place outside the city and was killed by torture….
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According to statistics compiled by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), at least 14 Kurdish civilians and activists have been arrested in the cities of Dehgolan, Divandereh, Sanandaj, Oshnavieh, Piranshahr, Islamabad-Qarb and Ilam in the provinces of Kurdistan, West Azerbaijan, Kermanshah and Ilam in December. Three of these people have been sent to the prison…
the Kurdistan human rights Association says; The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that all human beings have the right to be free and live-in freedom, regardless of race and colour; there must be sexual freedom, freedom to express their thought, religion. The same proclamation banned slavery and torture.
