URGENT ACTION DEATH ROW KURDS ON HUNGER STRIKE Six Sunni men from Iran’s Kurdish minority have been on hunger strike since 4 November, in protest at their death sentences and the conditions they are held in. All have been suffering health problems as a result. Jamshid Dehghani, his younger brother Jahangir Dehghani, Hamed Ahmadi, […]
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More than 100 Kurds Arrested in Tehran
Iranian security forces in Tehran arrested more than 100 Yarsani activists today. The Yarsan or Ahl-e Haqq (People of Truth) faith dates back to the 14th century in Iranian Kurdistan and is estimated to have 2 million followers. Its followers are subject to systematic discrimination and oppression by the Iranian state. The activists were […]
Amnesty International: Six Kurds may face execution soon
The Iranian authorities must urgently halt the execution of six men on death row in Ghezel Hesar Prison near Tehran. Two of them have been transferred to solitary confinement today sparking fears they are at imminent risk of execution Amnesty International said. Hamed Ahmadi and Sedigh Mohammadi are among six Sunni Muslim men from […]
Two Kurds die of self-immolation
Two followers of Ahl-e Haqq in Kurdistan set themselves on fire in protest to the persecution of another member of this group. Ahl-e Haqq is a religious minority whose members are mostly ethnic Kurds. According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), on June 4, 2013, Hassan Razavi set himself on […]
Five Iranian Kurds sentenced to 46 years in prison, one tortured to death
GVF — A revolutionary court in Iran has sentenced five Kurdish citizens to a total of 46 years in prison, according to reports.
No News of Three Kurds Arrested in Maku
Three citizens have been arrested by the security forces in the city of Maku, West Azerbaijan Province.