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The Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and the police forces across the borders of Makû, Xoy, Selmas and Ûrmiye have created dozens of new military bases. The plan is militarization of the border and control over the people, local residents say. According to local sources, after the meeting between the IRGC commander and governor of…

On International Women’s day, 8th March 2015, a global day to celebrate the global struggle women at least four women, Kurdish political prisoners, are in three different prisons held in appalling conditions. Kurdistan Human Rights Network has obtained the latest information, through reliable sources, in regards to four Kurdish women being held in prisons in…

Ceylan Bağrıyanık, Congress of Free Women (KJA, previously DÖKH) member of the İmralı delegation, has read a message from Kurdish people’s leader Abdullah Öcalan marking 8 March International Women’s Day. Reading the message addressing to the women who already gathered in the village of Mehser at Kobanê border, Bağrıyanık conveyed the following message of the…

Despite 12 days of the transfer of prisoners sentenced to death, Saman Nasim, Sirwan Najawi, Ibrahim Issapour, Ali Afshari, Habib Afshari and Younes Aghaiyan from section 12 of Urmiye prison, their relatives has not been given a clear answer so far. According to Human Righst Activists in Iran “HRANA”, all 6 political prisoners on Wednesday 18th February from section…

Why is the democratic-nation preferable to the nation-state? What is the meaning of Democratic-Nation? How seriously have the problems of different nations been worked out in Iran? What is the importance of regional changes and Kurdish actions to the changes and their effect on the Kurds’ situation in Iran? These topics are covered by Fuad…

Recently, Islamic Republic of Iran has started a massive attacking campaign against the Kurdish Nation in Eastern Kurdistan (Rojhelat). This vial attacking against Kurds comes parallel to an political repression toward the political prisoners and other Kurdish civilians in prison. It appears from this that the Iranian regime is preparing for a wider campaign against…

Sources inside the Urmiye Central Prison have reported to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that on Wednesday 18th of February at exactly 10 am local time, a number of plain clothed officers along with special guards entered Ward 12 of the prison where many of the Kurdish political prisoners were being held. The guards first…

The Kurdistan Human Rights Network has released an urgent report on the situation of the six Kurdish political prisoners in the Central Urmiye prison. According to the report, sources inside the prison reported that on Wednesday 18th of February at exactly 10am local time, a number of plain clothed officers along with special guards entered…

After much uncertainty and doubts about the status of six Kurdish political prisoner on death row named Saman Nasim, Sirwan Najawi, Ibrahim Issapour, Younes Aghaiyan, Ali Afshari and his brother Habib Afshari, European Kurdish and international human rights organizations continued to protest the treatment of these prisoners by the Iranian regime and demanded an immediate…

Sources close to the family of Ali and Habib Afshari, state that both political prisoners in Urmiye Prison were transferred yesterday to an unknown location. Saman Nasim was another prisoner who was transferred with Ali and Habib Afshari. In the past few hours it has been revealed by the Iranian Intelligence Office that the two…

Breaking from Urmiye Prison: Six political prisoners on death row have been transferred to an unknown location, including Saman Nasim. According to the reports received by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network from a source inside the Urmiye prison, on the 18th February 2015 stated that special guards entered division 12, where political prisoners are held and took…

The characteristic Sheikh Ezaddin Hosseini (in Kurdish Şêx Êzedîn Hisênî) who was famous for its national and religious role, lost his life due to illness four years ago in a hospital in Sweden. This is a short presentation of his character. He was born in 1921 in the city Bane, East of Kurdistan (Rojhelat). He grow…

Saman Nasîm a Kurdish political activist who has received death penalty (suspension) of the Iranian regime. This has created a huge concern among people around the world, and for every day that passes increases unrest. On February 9, Human Rights Watch, HRW, notice that a political prisoner under sentence of death in the name Saman…

Each year the brutal killing of Kolbers and tradesmen by Iranian armed forces in the border zones of Kurdistan leads to dozens of annual human tragedies and mass murders. Amed Şaho, a member of PJAK (Free Life Party of Kurdistan) assembly objected to the silence of the international community in relation to this issue, and…

Demonstrations are performed around the world for protest against Turkey’s imprisonment of Abdullah Öcalan. A unique Such was performed by a group of Kurdish women, which was to march from the city of Bern in Switzerland to Strasbourg in France, a variety of women’s Kurdish movements were attended the famous march ring, and even non-Kurdish. Two…

Hiwa Kirmaşan, a member of the organisation “Religion and nations’ faith” of Group of Communities in Kurdistan (KCK, Koma Civakên Kurdistan) stated in a ROJ NEWS interview that Kurdish followers of the religion Yarsan, also known as “Ahl-e Haqq”, should have their own representative bodies just as Kurds of the Êzîdî faith have. In relation…

According to Firat News Agency, two Kurdish Kolbers in the regions of Pîranşar died due the cold weather and glacial. Two Kolbers are named Ibrahim Mohammadzadeh, 40 years and Ibrahim Payemard, 27 years, both of them have families and kids and they are from the regions of Pîranşar and their job is working as Kolber on the borders. Last year in…

People’s Defense Force (HPG) Information Centre says that on the 29th and 30th of January, the forces of Iranian regime heavily bombed hills of Casusan (Jasusan), Şehîd Nûda and Şehîd Delberin in the regions of Qandil Mountains. HPG Centre states that on the same days the unmanned spy planes of the Turkish state on the 29th and 30th searched…

After 134 days of heroic resistance, on Monday Kobanê was entirely expunged of ISIS terrorists as a result of the brave actions of Kurdish guerrilla forces, Women’s Defense Units (YPJ) and People’s Defense Units (YPG). As ISIS terrorists evacuated into neighbouring Turkey, headline news across the world described this as a great victory for the…