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KHRN: Kurdish political prisoner in “critical condition” while on hunger strike in solitary confinement
Kurdish political prisoner Alireza Rasouli held in Mehabad prison has gone on hunger strike since 30 May and refused both water and food since June 11 in his solitary confinement cell, where his worrisome health could get even worse given that the authorities keep ignoring his demands. His family members had delivered a blanket and…
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The Guerrillas of YRK carried out operations in Hewraman
The Iranian regime with creation of a water dam in Hewraman, wants to put the nature in the area under water. The East Kurdistan Defense Units (YRK), warned Iranian regime that if they continue to build the water dam, they will explode the bridge close to the project. According to ROJ NWES Agency, in Rojhelat (Eastern Kurdistan),…
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PJAK’s speech in conference on the crisis in the Middle East, Iran and the Kurds
While we hold this conference, in the Middle East the political process trend involved in World War III has increased. Now both crises and opportunities to escape show their faces more than ever. New Middle East as a result of various social-political forces conflicts goes to a new form. In the meantime, because of…
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Final Resolution: Conference on the Crisis in the Middle East, Iran and the Kurds in the European Parliament
With the organisation of the Kurdish friendship group in the European Parliament, the KNK and the Eastern Kurdistan Commission on Thursday 4 June 2015 an international conference was held titled: “Crisis in the Middle East, Iran and the Kurds”. Many of European Kurdish friends and supporters, representatives of Kurdish political parties and organisations as well…
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8 Iranian Sepah soliders killed in a clash with YRK in Serdeşt
The East Kurdistan Defense Units (YRK) information centre informed Firat News Agency about a clash in Serdeşt between YRK guerrillas and Iranian Sepah forces which occurred on Monday 1st of June. According to YRK’s source, there was a clash between YRK guerrillas, and Iranian Sepah forces in the village of Barîke, in Rabat; a city…
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A detained people were hardly tortured form Rojhelat’s uprising
After uprising in Mehabad and other cities in Rojhelat (eastern Kurdistan) against killing and attempting rape of Ferînaz Xosrewanî, in Tara hotel, by Ettela’at forces approximately 200 people were detained in Mehabad, Sine (Sanandaj) and Serdaşt, sill their fate are unknown. According to the information from their family, Ettela’at moved those people to other cities…
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YRK: We will get strong revenge for the killing of our comrades
During last four years ago, there is a ceasefire between YRK guerrillas ‘East Kurdistan Defense Units’ and Islamic regime of Iran, but several times violated the agreement and started a psychological war against our peoples’ movement by the regime forces. Eastern Kurdistan liberation movement from the beginning till this moment have been attempted to sort out…
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HPG reports military activity by Iranian and Turkish army
ANF, BEHDINAN ─ HPG (People’s Defence Forces) Press and Communication Center issued a written statement saying that Iranian pasdarans had opened fire on guerrilla forces on the move on the border line of Kandil region in Media Defence Areas at 10.30 on May 23. HPG remarked that the guerrilla forces avoided a clash that had…
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HPG statement on clash with Iranian KDP
ANF, BEHDINAN ─ HPG (People’s Defense Forces) has denied allegations put forward by pro-KDP media which argued that HPG guerrillas attacked a group of KDP-I (Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran) peshmergas in the border area of Kelashin. HPG Press Centre said that these reports, which had obviously been prepared in advance, distorted the truth and…
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YRK’s statement on recent clashes in Merîwan
While the Iranian regime special forces and contra-guerrilla agents, in addition to the militarization of the Rojhelat (eastern Kurdistan), they have attempted to military operation and ambush for the East Kurdistan Defense Units (YRK) guerrillas. Despite the YRK were warned in its previous statements repeatedly if the Iranian regime forces carry out for any military operation and…
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Campaign in Latin America for the freedom of Zeyneb Celaliyan
ANF, BUENOS AIRES ─ The International Kurdish Women’s Movement and the Kurdish Solidarity Committee in Argentina have launched a joint campaign calling for the release of Zeyneb Celaliyan, who is still in prison in Iran despite her illness. Meetings to gain support for the petition with various women’s organisations and women deputies in Buenos Aires…
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KODAR: We will keep fighting until the establishment of democratic unilateral self-rule in Rojhelat
KODAR: If the Iranian government continues to insist on repression, we will keep fighting until the establishment of democratic unilateral self-rule in Rojhelat, eastern Kurdistan First of all, we send our greetings to all those who stood up for the democratic uprising in Mahabad city and all around Eastern Kurdistan in support of our people.…
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Islamists trained In Tehran and sent to illegally to Turkey
According to ROJ News Agency, Islamists are being trained in Tehran, capital city of Iran, and after their training they will be sent to the borders areas between Mako (Rojhelat, eastern part of Kurdistan) and Serhed (Bakur, northern part of Kurdistan) and from there, border traders are transferring these Islamists by crossing the borders to the…
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KHRN report: Government’s heavy-handed crackdown on protesters
Iranian security forces’ crackdown on Kurdish protesters continues to escalate in the city of Mehabad (Mahabad), where one young Kurdish protester has been partially paralysed after sustaining critical gunshot wounds. A source from inside the city of Mehabad said that Iranian security forces have so far arrested more than hundred protesters in the city and…
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Farzad Kamanger Foundation‘s statement for May 9th martyrs
In the name of Freedom At the eve of the fifth anniversary of May 9th martyrs, Farzad Kamangar, Shirin Alam Hooli, Farhad Vakili, Ali Heydarian and Mehdi Islamian, such cruel behaviours against humanity is condemned with the slogan of “the right of life and freedom cannot be denied from human life”. The sovereign teacher whom became the symbol of…
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ANF: Clash reported as Iranian army targets guerrilla areas
Iranian army has launched an operation in Soma area of East (Rojhilat) Kurdistan city of Urmiya. It is reported that Iranian Pasdaran (Revolutionary Guards) infiltrated into guerrilla areas to incite clashes, to which guerrillas responded with warning fire. People’s Defense Forces Press and Communication Centre (HPG-BIM) reported in a written statement that Iranian troops started…
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Report and Photos from Mehabad Clashes
On 7th of May 2015, a large crowd was gathered in front of Tara Hotel of Mehabad city to protest and condemn the act of Iranian government in protecting intelligence agent who attempted to rape a Kurdish girl working in the Hotel. As number of protesting people were increasing, Iranian authorities sent security forces to…
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Programs of PJAK’s overseas committee on anniversary of 9th May
Five years ago in the early hours of Sunday, May 9th of 2010, the Islamic Republic of Iran executed four of our beloved comrade Shirin Alam Hooli, Farzad Kamangar, Ali Heidarian, Farhad Vakili, along with a Persian political activist, Mehdi Eslamian. Five years after their executions, the families of the victims have yet to find…
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Eastern Kurdistan: The victim’s families disagree with the execution
Assadollah Gorjizadeh, director general of prisons in Sine Province of Rojhelat (eastern Kurdistan) pointed out that one of the prisoners in prison in Sine city was sentenced to execution in about 10 years ago and he had to be executed last week. While the order of the execution was to perform but as the victim’s family prevented the execution…
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INTERVIEW ─ Al Riyadh Newspaper with KODAR’s Cawîd (Part 2)
Rêzan Cawîd, co-chair of the Free and Democratic Society of Eastern Kurdistan (KODAR) told at an interview for the Arabic newspaper Al Riyadh, that KODAR will remain the pioneer of the people of Rojhelat (Eastern Kurdistan) and Iran and will not cease its efforts for freedom and democracy. KODAR will be continuing its struggle in…