Amnesty International is encouraging people to take action on behalf of Zeynab Jalalian, a Kurdish prisoner who was sentenced to death by Kermanshah Revolutionary Court, a verdict that was later changed to to life in prison ”Zeynab Jalalian has had …
Posted in Call to Actions, Extrajudicial Punishment, Health, Iran, Political Prisoners, Torture, Trials | 1 CommentMasoud Shamsinejad, a Kurdish human rights lawyer, appeared on May 7 or 8, 2014 before a court in Iran on charges of membership of an illegal political group and propaganda against the state, writes International Campaign for Human Rights in …
Posted in Iran, Political Prisoners, Trials | Comments Off on Kurdish Lawyer Sentenced to Prison in IranTwo Kurdish political prisoners, Zanyar Moradi and Loghman Moradi, are facing execution as the Iranian government moves forward on charges of murder, reports the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. Zanyar and Loghman Moradi were arrested in August 2009 …
Posted in Executions, Iran, Political Prisoners, Torture, Trials | Comments Off on Two Kurdish prisoners face execution in IranThe Kurdish people were still in mourning, commemorating the one-year-anniversary of the Roboskî Massacre that claimed the lives of 34 civilian Kurdish boys and men. Then news came in the second week of January that three Kurdish women had been …
Posted in Censorship, Discrimination, Executions, Free speech, Iran, Journalists, Kurdistan, Political Prisoners, Syria, Terror, Torture, Trials, Turkey | Comments Off on May 2014 not begin with yet another funeralZeynab Jalalian is a 31-year-old Kurdish woman who was arrested in May 2008 in Kermanshah for her alleged membership of an illegal Kurdish opposition party within Iran and charged with “enmity against God”. Around January 2009, Zeynab was sentenced to …
Posted in Discrimination, Iran, Political Prisoners, Torture, Trials | Comments Off on Zeynab Jalalian: Refused medical treatment in Iranian prisonShirkoo Moarefi, a Kurdish civil rights activist incarcerated in Iran’s Saghez Prison, was executed on Monday. Neither his family nor his lawyers were given prior notice, as is demanded by the law, that his death sentence was to be carried …
Posted in Executions, Free speech, Iran, Political Prisoners | 1 CommentAn Iranian Kurdish political prisoner was executed in the early morning hours of October 26th. Habibollah Golparipour, 29, had spent the last four years of his life in prison, where he was subject to the abusive treatment and torturous practices of …
Posted in Call to Actions, Discrimination, Executions, Free speech, Iran, Political Prisoners, Women | Comments Off on Kurdish Political Prisoner Executed In Iran; Two Others Sentenced to Death7 children were injured when a mine detonated in the hands of one of the children. They had found the mine in a former military outpost in a village in the northwestern city of Marivan, Kurdistan province (East Kurdistan/Iran), Kurdpress …
Posted in Iran, Youth | Comments Off on 7 children injured by mine blast in East Kurdistan