Category: News

According to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), the Iranian border guards opened fire on the car of Kurdish border trader by the name of Mihemed Bekir Qeytûlî near the village of Kanî Danyal in Selasê Bawecanî on August 7. The man got seriously injured as result of the attack, after which he was hospitalized…

Each year people of Kurdistan gather in the city of Lausanne to protest the namesake treaty by which Kurdistan was partitioned into four. On the occasion of the 94th anniversary of the Lausanne Treaty, many people gathered at Riponne square in Swiss city Lausanne and marched towards the Ouchy square, opposite the very building where…

A photo of Younes Feizi, the young Kurdish Kolber from Piranshahr who has lost both his legs in a landmine blast in childhood, has been widely shared on social media over the past few days. This photo has attracted the public’s attention to the issue of Kolbers and the wretched condition of this hardworking community…

As the isolation imposed upon Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan deepens, Öcalan’s lawyer and HDP Istanbul Province Co-chair Lawyer Cengiz Çiçek said calling Öcalan’s situation as “under isolation” is not enough to define the current practice anymore. Çiçek pointed out that HDP and democratic institutions have to self-criticize regarding the practice against Öcalan and stressed…

Kurdish youth in Europe are preparing for the 20th Mazlum Doğan Youth Festival. This year, the festival will be held tomorrow on 15th July in Blegny, Belgium. This year’s youth festival will be held under the slogan of ‘Azad Bike’ (To Free). The Mazlum Doğan Sports and Culture Youth Festival is a leading Kurdish youth…

Saman Nasim, a Kurdish political prisoner, who was a juvenile when arrested a few years ago, has been notified by the branch 12 of the Ûrmiye Court that the status of his mental health and maturity at the time of his offense will be re-examined and the results will be sent to a court in…

The “Alternative Summit” against the G-20 Summit in Hamburg by 70 organizations started on July 5th. The G-20 Summit, with 20 countries including the USA, China, Russia and Germany, is held in Hamburg, Germany this year. Hamburg will be hosting a G-20 summit for the first time and the city has been crippled with over…

According to a report from Kurdistan Human Rights Association,on Teasday 4 June 2017, Dr. Salaheddin Khadio, a journalist, political activist and writer from Mahabad city, was arrested by the Islamic Republic of Iran’s security forces in Rojhelat (eastern Kurdistan). He is one of the prominent personalities and critics of Kurd and a capable writer in…

Information regarding the fate of detained wounded Iranian Kurdish opposition member Ramin Hossein Panahi and members of his family has remained unknown since he was arrested after armed clashes with Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) in the city of Sanandaj on 23 June. A reliable source spoke to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) about the…

The Free Life Party of Kurdistan, PJAK in the statement which has been published on PJAK’s official site, evaluated the situation of Iran after the presidential elections held on 19 May 2017. The full text of statement “Iran is heading intervention or interaction” published as follows: It seems that the transformations that surrounded all the…

Last Wednesday,  7th of June, in two separate attacks to the Islamic Republic of Iran parliament and Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini assembly mausoleum, dozens of people were killed and wounded, which created a wave of security forces in Sunni areas of Iran. Soon after these attacks, the authorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran in its…

Democratic Nation the official journal of KODAR, the East Kurdistan Democratic and Free Society, in the 5th edition writes about living as a community with the Azerbaijani people. In this edition of the journal, analyzes the issues of living as a community, the Kurds and Azeris in Iran and Rojhelat, and proposed a practical solutions…

Over the past few days, all versions of the Kurdish language instruction book, in Kurmanji, has been banned by the Intelligence Service in Xorasan (Khorasan Razavi province), despite having permission from the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance. Elîreza Sêpahî Laîn, a Kurdish known journalists and authors of Xorasan in an open letter said ban…

Two kids from Bokan of Rojhelat on their birthday performed a ceremony containing the message of peace with nature. According to Firat News Agency, Romina 9 years old girl and Mahan 10 years old boy, from Bokan on their birthday, instead of doing usual traditions they went to a hunter and asked him to give…

Media affiliated with the Iranian government reported: “On 27th of May clashes broke out between PJAK and Iranian forces in Ûrmiye which resulted in casualty of two Border Regiment troops were and injury of seven others. The bodies of those killed during the conflict were buried at Ûrmiye in a funeral ceremony on 28th of…

YJA Star guerrilla Nûda Karker from Rojhelat (eastern Kurdistan), stated that in the PKK, which is a women’s movement at the same time, a wholly realized person with identity and will emerges and rebuilds life, aware of herself and knowing herself. Karker said she was very lucky to have been able to achieve this. YJA…

Attack by Iranian regime forces left a kolber dead and two others wounded at Hewraman border. Iranian regime forces have once again attacked the kolbers, cross-border porters working for daily wage, at the border between Rojhilat (Eastern Kurdistan) and Başûr (Southern Kurdistan). Local sources told Firat News Agency, ANF, that the kolbers were targeted at…

An informed source told Human Rights Network Kurdistan (KHRN) that Kamal Hassan Ramazan, political prisoner form Rojava, has been officially notified the definitive implementation of his death sentences in absentia, in the prison, by Branch 3 of the Revolutionary Court in Ûrmiye on 20 May 2017. According to the source, the statement by Judge M.…

A conference on despotism and violence against women in eastern Kurdistan (Rojhelat) and Iran was held in Stockholm, Sweden, by Rojhelat Women´s Federation, RONAK. On Saturday, May 20 2017, RONAK organized a conference in Stockhom, Sweden, in collaboration with Kurdish Mothers in Sweden. The purpose of this conference was to enlighten the various political organizations,…

Evîndar Rênas is a member of the Kurdish women’s movement that during the interview with the News Agency of ANF before the Iran’s presidential election mentioned the position of women in Iran, and demanded the women who defend women’s rights and equality in the municipal councils must be supported. Evîndar Rênas referring to the patriarchal…