On December 5th, 2012, in a Kurdish inhabited village called Shinawa near Piranshaar in Iran, on a cold morning while all 37 students of the class, all girls in the age between 6 to 10, were in the class room with …
Posted in General, Iran | Comments Off on School fire in Iran kills Kurdish girlHuman rights activist Mohmmad Seddigh Kaboodvand was transferred to the Evin Prison infirmary on the tenth day of his hunger strike against his unfair detention by the Iranian government. Kaboodvand began his hunger strike on May 26th after he was denied a …
Posted in Activism, Health, Hunger Strikes, Iran, Journalists | Comments Off on Kurdish prisoners Mohmmad Kaboodvand and Hossein Maleki on hunger strike in IranRajai Shahr Prison, Iran- Two Kurdish prisoners who have been on death row in Iran since December 2010 sent a letter out of their jail cell in commemoration of the two year anniversary of the execution of Kurdish teacher Farzad Kamangar, and four other …
Posted in Executions, Iran | Comments Off on A letter from Prison honors Kurds executed in IranA profile of Iranian-Kurdish human rights activist and researcher, Soraya Fallah, with her daughter Cklara Moradian. Soraya was imprisoned four times, and tortured so severely that she miscarried in solitary confinement. As Cklara, her daughter, says, “My parents are my …
Posted in Iran | 1 CommentIn 1989 the secretary general of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI), Dr. Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou, was assassinated in Austria. He and two friends were brutally murdered in an apartment in the suburbs of Vienna by agents of the …
Posted in Activism, Iran | Comments Off on Targeted killings and International Human Rights Law – convergence or confrontation?One of the essential pillar of democracy is freedom of press and if this pillar is missing in a democratic country, then that country can no longer be considered democratic. True, Turkey hold free elections and it has competing political …
Posted in Censorship, Discrimination, Free speech, Iran, Journalists, Kurdistan, Media, Political Prisoners, Prisoners of Conscience, Reports, Suppression, Trials, Turkey | Comments Off on Complete List of 104 Journalists in Turkish JailsKurdish activists have faced increased hostility by the Iranian government. Their peaceful campaigning for democracy, constitutionally protected rights and greater ethnic rights have been met with an iron fist. Many activists have been detained in Iran’s notorious Evin prison. Mohammad …
Posted in Call to Actions, Iran | Comments Off on Remembering Kurdish Human Rights activists in IranTwo young Kurdish men in Iran will be executed as early as this coming Friday, according to news website Rooz Online. In October of last year, activist organization United4Iran led a campaign urging the Iranian authorities to halt their execution. …
Posted in Executions, Iran, Youth | Comments Off on Zanyar and Loqman Moradi: Two Kurdish citizens in Iran awaiting execution